... Effect of annealing time of an ice crystal on the activity of type III antifreeze protein Manabu Takamichi1,2, Yoshiyuki Nishimiya1, Ai Miura1and Sakae Tsuda1,21 Functional Protein ... growthinhibition ability of an AFP [5]. Therefore, determina-tion of the Tiniand Tm of a seed ice crystal is an essen-tial procedure to evaluate the TH activity of AFP.However, the mechanism of ice ... we examined the dependence of TH on experimental parameters, including cooling rate, annealing time, annealing temperature and the size of the seed ice crystal for an isoform of type III AFP from...