Dear friends, today I have the honor of presenting a contribution of our exile friend El Lechero , Which many know as a frequent commentator and one of the main drivers of the Darwinian idea insane. Humble as any good scientist, El Lechero has never wanted to officially sign the blog author and limited to working in the shadows, so sent me a fantastic text to publish it in your name (as it did on this one occasion with friends exiled in Germany).
Without further ado, I present, fresh from the USA, El Lechero!:
A lack of defined three-dimensional structure the protagonists of this article,
I took the liberty to illustrate the post with this metaphorical image.
Recently I had one of those days when you get excited by science and began to review literature, print articles and even to read, I understand ...
The fact is that in the midst of this fever, I found a protein called patatin "and I began to remember the funny names that are often proteins. Have been described many proteins and have been so complicated cellular processes that can not be known and that of a protein called "glycogen synthase. My mind began to move away from the article and think more and more of these proteins with funny name ... and I said "Darwinnnnnnnnnnnnnn !!!!!!!!!!! This I have to write in Jindetrés, go!".
Naturally, people are years and years researching, tracking unsuccessful so the day that leaves a positive and find a new protein, not waste this moment of glory for a baptism like and just go all out.
For example, what do you think of the oncogene Pokemon (POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor)? Other names have made the leap to the big screen as the scientific press R2D2, a protein involved in processing miRNAs, Groucho (not to be confused with our scholarship blog) ... and even Homer Simpson .
At one time also marked tendency that its protein baptized with names of animals: there are PUMA , Armadillo , Raptor Or Sonic Hedgehog. I personally find it very inspiring the name of the transcription factor " FOX." Each translate it as you like for me that meant "slut" and forgive the audacity. I also once met with the protein SIAH (seven in Absence ). Clearly, the day he was named in the laboratory had been smoking some firecrackers.
Other proteins have already been mentioned in this forum, and we are quite familiar but not want to be left out of this review. For example the family of proteins called SUMO or the E3 ubiquitin ligase called Malina .
A protein that life was known as PTG ( Protein targeting to glycogen ) the moment someone wanting to get dizzy, or messing R5 was renamed . Apart from the simple rhymes, I think he did it as a nostalgic tribute to the car in which many of us were conceived.
Continuing somewhat scatological names are " caspases," the " Culinas " or "Coitus interruptus , a protein described in D.melanogaster , and I'm not kidding. People who work in plants is not far behind. For example there AMC (Abstinence by mutual consent) protein described in Arabidopsis , or proteins Argonauts, of which already spoke here at the time .
Ultimately the joke and leave tiny footprints imagination in science. It seems that reality is sometimes stranger than fiction. In light of these data does not surprise me that the route composed of proteins such as lonchasoma , adobo1 and tomaquitilating proteins ( Dr. Litos, Banchsinger et al.; Jindetrés, salt!, 2010 ) charged a prophetic aspect to one day become a reality.
El Lechero
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