COMPOSITION TO IMPROVE SURVIVAL OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS

摘要

The present invention relates to aqueous compositions of substances, such as organic molecules, which are useful to protect and preserve viable plant or animal cell membrane and tissue exposed to hypothermal and hyperthermal temperatures or nonphysiological chemical conditions, and to modify the freezing process of liquids in biological plant or animal cells or tissue. More specifically, the present invention relates to the use of antifreeze polypeptide or antifreeze glycopeptide which is derived, for example, from the fluid or serum of Arctic and Antarctic fish. Preferred antifreeze compounds are related to those polypeptides having multiple alanine-alanine-threonine- or alanine-alanine-alanine-segments.