Towards a Processual Approach in Protein Studies
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-019-09370-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-019-09370-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12304-019-09370-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12304-019-09370-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Towards a Processual Approach in Protein Studies
Original language description
The present paper attempts to demonstrate semiotic arguments against the sequence → structure → function paradigm in protein studies. The unidirectional deterministic thinking in biological processes has been challenged by several disciplines of life sciences (epigenetics, proteomics, etc.) and philosophy (process philosophy). Biosemiotics comprehends living organisms as actively participating in their present and somehow creating or shaping their future, having a plurality of options for acting. Determinism and unidirectionality are in contradiction with a biosemiotic approach towards life, mostly when considering Peirce’s triadic concept of semiosis. In this paper, a Peircean biosemiotic approach is applied to proteins and to the process of protein folding. Two main concepts are presented to support the arguments against the SSF paradigm in protein studies: the NonReduction Theorem and the notion of folded continuum. A processual approach is proposed as the most suitable for descriptions of proteins and their functions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biosemiotics
ISSN
1875-1342
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
469-480
UT code for WoS article
000500484900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85075926872