"primary structure" meaning in All languages combined

See primary structure on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: primary structures [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} primary structure (plural primary structures)
  1. (biochemistry) The linear sequence of amino acids covalently linked by peptide bonds to form a single polypeptide chain. Wikipedia link: primary structure Categories (topical): Biochemistry Coordinate_terms: secondary structure, tertiary structure, quaternary structure
    Sense id: en-primary_structure-en-noun-kk1YMKPw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for primary structure meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "primary structures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "primary structure (plural primary structures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biochemistry",
          "orig": "en:Biochemistry",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "secondary structure"
        },
        {
          "word": "tertiary structure"
        },
        {
          "word": "quaternary structure"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The linear sequence of amino acids covalently linked by peptide bonds to form a single polypeptide chain."
      ],
      "id": "en-primary_structure-en-noun-kk1YMKPw",
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "linear",
          "linear"
        ],
        [
          "sequence",
          "sequence"
        ],
        [
          "amino acid",
          "amino acid"
        ],
        [
          "covalently",
          "covalently"
        ],
        [
          "peptide bond",
          "peptide bond"
        ],
        [
          "polypeptide",
          "polypeptide"
        ],
        [
          "chain",
          "chain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) The linear sequence of amino acids covalently linked by peptide bonds to form a single polypeptide chain."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "primary structure"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "primary structure"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "secondary structure"
    },
    {
      "word": "tertiary structure"
    },
    {
      "word": "quaternary structure"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "primary structures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "primary structure (plural primary structures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Biochemistry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The linear sequence of amino acids covalently linked by peptide bonds to form a single polypeptide chain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "linear",
          "linear"
        ],
        [
          "sequence",
          "sequence"
        ],
        [
          "amino acid",
          "amino acid"
        ],
        [
          "covalently",
          "covalently"
        ],
        [
          "peptide bond",
          "peptide bond"
        ],
        [
          "polypeptide",
          "polypeptide"
        ],
        [
          "chain",
          "chain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) The linear sequence of amino acids covalently linked by peptide bonds to form a single polypeptide chain."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "primary structure"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "primary structure"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.