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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2018

Facially Amphipathic Glycopolymers Inhibit Ice Recrystallization.

Ben Graham, Alice E R Fayter, Judith E Houston, Rachel C Evans, Matthew I Gibson

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. An Ultrapotent, Ultraeconomical, Antifreeze Polypeptide.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  5. Synthetic Antifreeze Glycoproteins with Potent Ice-Binding Activity.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2024
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  12. Minimalistic ice recrystallisation inhibitors based on phenylalanine.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2022
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  15. Chemical approaches to cryopreservation.Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2022
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  17. Ice Inhibition for Cryopreservation: Materials, Strategies, and Challenges.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ben GrahamDepartment of Chemistry , University of Warwick , Coventry CV4 7AL , U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-1313-6874
Alice E R FayterDepartment of Chemistry , University of Warwick , Coventry CV4 7AL , U.K.ORCID 0000-0001-9470-9560
Judith E HoustonJülich Centre for Neutron Science , Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH , Garching 85747 , Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5205-3620
Rachel C EvansDepartment of Materials Science & Metallurgy , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0FS , U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-2956-4857
Matthew I GibsonDepartment of Chemistry , University of Warwick , Coventry CV4 7AL , U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-8297-1278

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) from polar fish are the most potent ice recrystallization (growth) inhibitors known, and synthetic mimics are required for low-temperature applications such as cell cryopreservation. Here we introduce facially amphipathic glycopolymers that mimic the three-dimensional structure of AFGPs. Glycopolymers featuring segregated hydrophilic and hydrophobic faces were prepared by ring-opening metathesis polymerization, and their rigid conformation was confirmed by small-angle neutron scattering. Ice recrystallization inhibition (IRI) activity was reduced when a hydrophilic oxo-ether was installed on the glycan-opposing face, but significant activity was restored by incorporating a hydrophobic dimethylfulvene residue. This biomimetic strategy demonstrates that segregated domains of distinct hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity are a crucial motif to introduce IRI activity, which increases our understanding of the complex ice crystal inhibition processes.

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PMID29660982
PMCPMC5940321

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