Patent ID: 6392024
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: A01K,C07K

Abstract:
An isolated nucleic acid encoding an antifreeze protein, said protein defined as follows:(i) having a calculated molecular weight of between 7 and 13 kDa; (ii) having a thermal hysteresis activity greater than 1.5Â° C. at about 1 mg/mL; (iii) having a nucleic acid subsequence which encodes the N-terminal motif set forth in Seq. ID No. 3; (iv) specifically binding to polyclonal antibodies raised against antifreeze protein selected from the group consisting of YL-1, YL-2, YL-3 or YL-4: and, (v) having at least about 70% amino acid sequence identity to an antifreeze protein selected from the group consisting of YL-1, YL-2, YL-3 or YL-4.