Bacterial ice-nucleation proteins
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| Bacterial ice-nucleation proteins octamer repeat | |||||||||
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| Symbol | Ice_nucleatn | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF00818 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR000258 | ||||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00283 | ||||||||
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Bacterial ice-nucleation proteins are a family of proteins that enable Gram-negative bacteria to promote nucleation of ice at relatively high temperatures (above −5 °C).[1][2] These proteins are localised at the outer membrane surface and can cause frost damage to many plants. The primary structure of the proteins contains a highly repetitive domain that dominates the sequence. The domain comprises a number of 48-residue repeats, which themselves contain 3 blocks of 16 residues, the first 8 of which are identical. It is thought that the repetitive domain may be responsible for aligning water molecules in the seed crystal.
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