Preparation and Properties of Antifreeze Glycoprotein AFGP from Antarctic Fish Bloods

Preparation and Properties of Antifreeze Glycoprotein (AFGP) from Antarctic Fish Bloods 

Antifreeze glycoprotein is a collective name for a family of at least eight closely related glycoproteins that account for a major fraction of the protein in the blood serum of certain Antarctic fishes. The glycoproteins have been numbered according to the order of migration of 

General Properties of Antifreeze Glycoproteins of Trematomus borchgrevinkia 

Antifreeze activity Strong Strong Strong Strong Strong None None None 

0 From Feeney (1974b), reproduced with permission. 

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