Biology is amazing except for the scientists that insist on naming things in weird ways. Enter the RTK (receptor tyrosine kinase) signaling pathway called Sev (short for "sevenless" because it has a defect in its seventh photoreceptor) found in drosophila (flies).
As if calling a receptor "sevenless" isn't bad enough, its ligand is called "bride of sevenless" (Boss) and the downstream product, a GEF that causes the activation of a Ras protein, is called "son of sevenless" (Sos). Why, oh why?
Of course these scientists are studying flies, so maybe they're a little out there.
1 comment:
haha, was that a Sarah Palin jibe?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXqKEs68Xk&feature
also yeah the random acronym-fueled naming system is beyond ridiculous
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