edited by Kathryn Vanya Ewart (National Research Council Institute for Marine Biosciences, Canada) & Choy Leong Hew (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

About Kathryn Vanya Ewart
 

About Choy Leong Hew
 

Antifreeze proteins enable organisms to avoid freezing under extreme conditions. The greatest diversity of known antifreeze proteins is in teleost fish and much work has gone into the understanding of these proteins and their applications.

Antifreeze proteins are an exciting model system for the study of protein–surface(ice) interaction. They have served as unique model structures in protein science and they are also useful tools in the study of fish physiology and behavior. Their emergence in some fish species has even provided a rare glimpse of de novo protein evolution in action.

To cover the diverse aspects of fish antifreeze study, a wide spectrum of researchers have been selected to write clear and comprehensive articles on different areas of antifreeze research. This book should be a very useful and informative resource for life science researchers.

• Early Research on Proteins from the Antarctic: Antifreeze Glycoproteins (R A Feeney & D T Osuga)
• Physiological Ecology of Antifreeze Proteins — A Northern Perspective (S V Goddard & G L Fletcher)
• Fish Antifreeze Proteins: Functions, Molecular Interactions and Biological Roles (K V Ewart)
• Origins and Evolution of Fish Antifreeze Proteins (C C-H Cheng & A L DeVries)
• The Structure of Fish Antifreeze Proteins (D J Brown & F D Sönnichsen)
• Control of Antifreeze Protein Gene Expression in Winter Flounder (M Miao et al.)
• The Skin-Type Antifreeze Polypeptides: A New Class of Type I AFPs (W-K Low et al.)
• The Interaction of Antifreeze Proteins with Model Membranes and Cells (M M Tomczak & J H Crowe)
• Antifreeze Protein Gene Transfer in Salmonids (W-K Low et al.).