Linguistique structuraleLa linguistique structurale est une approche de la linguistique issue des travaux du linguiste suisse Ferdinand de Saussure et fait partie de l'approche générale du structuralisme. Le Cours de linguistique générale de Saussure, publié à titre posthume en 1916, mettait l'accent sur l'étude du langage comme système statique d'unités interconnectées.
Nucleic acid structure predictionNucleic acid structure prediction is a computational method to determine secondary and tertiary nucleic acid structure from its sequence. Secondary structure can be predicted from one or several nucleic acid sequences. Tertiary structure can be predicted from the sequence, or by comparative modeling (when the structure of a homologous sequence is known).
Projection de Newmanvignette|3 conformères du n-butane (CH3-CH2-CH2-CH3) en vue de Newman : au centre de la figure figurent les deux atomes de carbone du milieu de la chaine, les 3 différentes conformations stables placent relativement les groupements méthyles de chaque extrémité de la chaîne de carbone respectivement à 60° (conformation « gauche»), 180° (conformation « anti », la plus stable) ou 0° (conformation « éclipsée »).
Anfinsen's dogmaAnfinsen's dogma, also known as the thermodynamic hypothesis, is a postulate in molecular biology. It states that, at least for a small globular protein in its standard physiological environment, the native structure is determined only by the protein's amino acid sequence. The dogma was championed by the Nobel Prize Laureate Christian B. Anfinsen from his research on the folding of ribonuclease A. The postulate amounts to saying that, at the environmental conditions (temperature, solvent concentration and composition, etc.
Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell cultureStable Isotope Labeling by/with Amino acids in Cell culture (SILAC) is a technique based on mass spectrometry that detects differences in protein abundance among samples using non-radioactive isotopic labeling. It is a popular method for quantitative proteomics. Two populations of cells are cultivated in cell culture. One of the cell populations is fed with growth medium containing normal amino acids. In contrast, the second population is fed with growth medium containing amino acids labeled with stable (non-radioactive) heavy isotopes.
