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2099842 No.2099842 [Reply] [Original]

Seriously biologists and biochemists have the worst fucking sense in naming anything.

even if you generate random letters to name the enzymes it's still better than the fucking retarded and confusing scheme every single one of them created.

When you are fucking done with your experiment, can't you at least rename your shitty tubes when making up a model? is that too much to ask?

I fucking mad.

>> No.2099858

i mad too :(

>> No.2099931

Dishevelled? Frizzled? Seriously?

>> No.2099949

I mad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enzymes

Is there ANY logic in this?

>> No.2100010

>>2099931
They're named because the mutant phenotype for those receptors/ligands resembles something disheveled or frizzled.
Still doesn't explain Easter though. Or why they let a guy name half of a pathway in German and half in English- just keep it one language.

>> No.2100096

Usually enzyme naming is the name of the substrate plus what it does to it, dehydrogenase, kinase, phosphotase,carboxylase, decarboxylase, etc. Some of the older names are unusual and just stuck in the literature, so everyone uses them because it's easier.

>> No.2100100
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2100100

mfw i just had an exam on op's picture

>> No.2100313

>>2100096
look at the OP pic, a lot of those are kinases, g proteins (GTPase unto itself) and none of them have that function-substrate naming scheme.

these guys just randomly labeled their mutants and continued to use them. at this rate, in 20 years, none of the biochemists will know what the fuck they are studying.

>> No.2100340

>>2100313
The weird names are a small fraction. OP's picture is like 1/1000 of cell signaling. Most follow rules.

>> No.2100364

>>2100313
Why would anyone need to know the names of those enzymes by heart, unless it's for an exam in your undergrad studies? (biochem PhD student here)

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2100379

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog
mfw this protein is mentioned in our lectures.

>> No.2100387

>>2099931
>>2100010
>>2100379
>>2099842
Blame the fucking fly biologists!