Peter L. Davies

Research interests

Publications

• Ice-Binding Proteins and Their Function

  Annual Review of Biochemistry · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biochem-060815-014546

• Ice-binding proteins: a remarkable diversity of structures for stopping and starting ice growth

  Trends in Biochemical Sciences · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2014.09.005

• An Antifreeze Protein Folds with an Interior Network of More Than 400 Semi-Clathrate Waters

  Science · 2014 · 10.1126/science.1247407

• Structure–function relationships in calpains

  Biochemical Journal · 2012 · 10.1042/bj20120921

• Development of α-Helical Calpain Probes by Mimicking a Natural Protein–Protein Interaction

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2012 · 10.1021/ja307599z

• Anchored clathrate waters bind antifreeze proteins to ice

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100429108

• Calcium-bound structure of calpain and its mechanism of inhibition by calpastatin

  Nature · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07451

• The basis for hyperactivity of antifreeze proteins

  Cryobiology · 2006 · 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2006.06.006

• Glycine-Rich Antifreeze Proteins from Snow Fleas

  Science · 2005 · 10.1126/science.1115145

• Antifreeze proteins: an unusual receptor–ligand interaction

  Trends in Biochemical Sciences · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0968-0004(01)02028-x

• A Ca2+ Switch Aligns the Active Site of Calpain

  Cell · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0092-8674(02)00659-1

• Structure and function of antifreeze proteins

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2002.1081

• Antifreeze Proteins of Teleost Fishes

  Annual Review of Physiology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.physiol.63.1.359

• β-Helix structure and ice-binding properties of a hyperactive antifreeze protein from an insect

  Nature · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35018610

• The Genome Sequence of Drosophila melanogaster

  Science · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.287.5461.2185

• Mimicry of ice structure by surface hydroxyls and water of a β-helix antifreeze protein

  Nature · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35018604

• New ice‐binding face for type I antifreeze protein

  FEBS Letters · 1999 · 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)01588-4

• The antifreeze potential of the spruce budworm thermal hysteresis protein

  Nature Biotechnology · 1997 · 10.1038/nbt0997-887

• Hyperactive antifreeze protein from beetles

  Nature · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1038/41908

• A Diminished Role for Hydrogen Bonds in Antifreeze Protein Binding to Ice

  Biochemistry · 1997 · 10.1021/bi970817d

• Structure of a calpain Ca2+-binding domain reveals a novel EF-hand and Ca2+-induced conformational changes

  Nature Structural Biology · 1997 · 10.1038/nsb0797-532

• Antifreeze proteins

  Current Opinion in Structural Biology · 1997 · 10.1016/s0959-440x(97)80154-6

• Refined solution structure of type III antifreeze protein: hydrophobic groups may be involved in the energetics of the protein–ice interaction

  Structure · 1996 · 10.1016/s0969-2126(96)00140-2

• Structural basis for the binding of a globular antifreeze protein to ice

  Nature · 1996 · 10.1038/384285a0

• Biochemistry of fish antifreeze proteins

  The FASEB Journal · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.4.8.2185972

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