Antifreeze protein (AFP) can help organisms survive from freezing condition by thermal hysteresis activity to control ice growth and by recrystallization inhibition activity to inhibit recrystallization of ice granules, respectively. By bioinformatics methods especially protein docking, the newly developed models of surface complementarity were used to obtain the molecular models of AFPs and hence to interpret the binding mechanism between AFP and ice. The molecular models of relatively perfect surface complementarity were obtained basing on the three-dimensional structures of AFPs, and among ...
