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CRYSTALLIZE [4 records]

Record 1 2015-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Security
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

When a charge upon all property or assets of a company has crystallized, it constitutes a charge upon all property or assets then belonging to the company ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des sûretés
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
OBS

crystallization: the formation of crystalline substances from solutions or melts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
CONT

Today nearly 2,000 different enzymes are known. Many have been isolated in pure homogeneous form, and at least 200 have been crystallized.... NMR studies of globular proteins in solution give data consistent with the crystal structure, as has been amply demonstrated for lysozyme. However, where there is an equilibrium among two or more conformations of the enzyme in solution, crystallization may select out only one of the conformations. [alpha]-Chymotrypsin has a substantial fraction of an inactive conformation present under the conditions of crystallization, but only the active form of the enzyme crystallizes. An allosteric effector molecule that changes the conformation of the protein in solution may have no effect on the crystalline protein, as has been found, for example, with phosphorylase b. The enzyme is frozen in one conformation, with the crystal lattice forces preventing any conformational change. On the other hand, the addition of an effector to phosphorylase a causes the crystals first to crack and then to anneal, giving crystals of the enzyme in a second conformation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
DEF

Amener une substance à l'état de cristaux, lui donner la contexture régulière des cristaux.

CONT

Pour cristalliser une protéine, on place des échantillons en présence d'agents précipitants : solutions salines, solvants organiques ou polyéthylène glycol, dont on augmente progressivement la concentration par diffusion en phase gazeuse ou liquide. Pour les protéines membranaires, ces expériences se font en présence de détergents "doux". Comme la solubilité des protéines dépend du pH, de la température, de la présence d'ions métalliques ou de petites molécules qui se fixent sur la protéine, etc., des centaines de tests sont souvent nécessaires pour mettre au point une cristallisation.

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

Former des structures ordonnées à partir d'un état amorphe ou désordonné.

OBS

Le sens intransitif de ce néologisme n'est pas répertorié dans les dictionnaires. Emploi différent de la forme réflexive «se cristalliser».

PHR

cristalliser avec des structures différentes, sous forme diamant, sous forme graphite.

PHR

Le système désordonné cristallise, le verre cristallise.

PHR

cristalliser entièrement, lentement, partiellement, rapidement, spontanément.

Spanish

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