Coronavirus spike proteinSpike (S) glycoprotein (sometimes also called spike protein, formerly known as E2) is the largest of the four major structural proteins found in coronaviruses. The spike protein assembles into trimers that form large structures, called spikes or peplomers, that project from the surface of the virion. The distinctive appearance of these spikes when visualized using negative stain transmission electron microscopy, "recalling the solar corona", gives the virus family its main name.
Structure secondairethumb|200px|Schéma de la structure tridimensionnelle de la protéine myoglobine. Cette structure contient de hélices α mais pas de feuillets β. Cette protéine est la première dont la structure a été résolue par cristallographie en 1958, par Max Perutz et John Kendrew, ce qui leur a valu l'attribution du prix Nobel de chimie en 1962. En biochimie et en biologie structurale, la structure secondaire se rapporte uniquement à la description de la structure tridimensionnelle localement adoptée par certains segments de molécules biologiques (molécules définies comme étant des biopolymères, comme c’est le cas pour les protéines et les acides nucléiques (ADN/ARN)).
G-structure on a manifoldIn differential geometry, a G-structure on an n-manifold M, for a given structure group G, is a principal G-subbundle of the tangent frame bundle FM (or GL(M)) of M. The notion of G-structures includes various classical structures that can be defined on manifolds, which in some cases are tensor fields. For example, for the orthogonal group, an O(n)-structure defines a Riemannian metric, and for the special linear group an SL(n,R)-structure is the same as a volume form.
