BioConcepts

structural genegène de structure (fr.); Strukturgen (ger.)

• A DNA segment whose own structure (nucleotide sequence) determines the structure (amino acid sequence) of a specific polypeptide. (Oxford Dict. of Genetics 2007) 
  category gene see also regulator gene

  1959

  gène de structure [...] responsable de la structure de la molécule

  Jacob, F. & Monod, J. (1959). Gènes de structure et gènes de régulation dans la biosynthèse des protéines. Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris 249, 1282-1284: 1283.

  1982

  structural gene Any gene that determines the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide. 

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 237.