Bacteria, insects and fish that thrive at subfreezing temperatures produce proteins that bind to ice and manage its formation and growth. Ice binding proteins include antifreeze proteins, that stop the formation of ice, and ice-nucleating proteins, that promote it. This presentation will discuss what makes proteins so outstanding at recognizing and binding ice, what distinguishes ice nucleating and antifreeze proteins, and how can we use that knowledge to engineer new molecules for a range of applications, from seeding clouds to induce precipitation to cryopreservation.

Molecular recognition of ice by proteins: From ice nucleation to antifreeze

2019 Fall National Meeting

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