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Antifreeze protein (type I)
Some fish in icy water make this protein. It grabs onto baby ice crystals so they cannot grow big enough to hurt the fish.
Fun fact
Winter flounder swim happily at almost minus 2°C.
Words to know
protein
NGSS alignment
MS-LS3-1Structure & function of proteinsMS-LS1-3Body as a system
Structure
Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P19614. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P19614.
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