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ArticleScientific reports2022

Electron microscopy and calorimetry of proteins in supercooled water.

Jorge H Melillo, Elizaveta Nikulina, Maiara A Iriarte-Alonso, Silvina Cerveny, Alexander M Bittner

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jorge H Melillo *Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Elizaveta Nikulina *CIC nanoGUNE (BRTA), Av. Tolosa 76, 20018, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Maiara A Iriarte-AlonsoCIC nanoGUNE (BRTA), Av. Tolosa 76, 20018, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Silvina CervenyDonostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. silvina.cerveny@ehu.es.
Alexander M BittnerCIC nanoGUNE (BRTA), Av. Tolosa 76, 20018, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. a.bittner@nanogune.eu.
CIC nanoGUNE · ESDonostia International Physics Center · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some of the best nucleating agents in nature are ice-nucleating proteins, which boost ice growth better than any other material. They can induce immersion freezing of supercooled water only a few degrees below 0 °C. An open question is whether this ability also extends to the deposition mode, i.e., to water vapor. In this work, we used three proteins, apoferritin, InaZ (ice nucleation active protein Z), and myoglobin, of which the first two are classified as ice-nucleating proteins for the immersion freezing mode. We studied the ice nucleation ability of these proteins by differential scanning calorimetry (immersion freezing) and by environmental scanning electron microscopy (deposition freezing). Our data show that InaZ crystallizes water directly from the vapor phase, while apoferritin first condenses water in the supercooled state, and subsequently crystallizes it, just as myoglobin, which is unable to nucleate ice.

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IceMyoglobinApoferritinsCalorimetryFreezingMicroscopy, ElectronSteamApoferritinsIceMyoglobinSteam

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PMID36192511
PMCPMC9529883
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