Monday, January 21, 2008

Really Interesting New Gene...

There are funny names for Biological substances from time to time, such as the most famous one: JAK (Janus Kinase), which some people just call: Just Another Kinase...

But this one is hilarious, I really had to point it out.

I was reading a review of ubiquitination, when I came upon the line that said that there are 2 kinds of the E3 ligase that is responsible of ubiquitination, one of them has the RING-finger domain, while "RING" stands for:

Really Interesting New Gene

Okay, so literally, the new gene really is very interesting...

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