Radical-SAM dependent nucleotide dehydratase (SAND), rectification of the names of an ancient iron-sulfur enzyme using NC-IUBMB recommendations

Journal article

In 1789, the influential French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier described his view of science and its langague in his book Trait lmentaire de chimie. According to the Robert Kerr's translation it states (Lavoisier, 1790): "As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it." This view reminds us of Confucius's earlier doctrine, the rectification of names Confucius believed that rectification of names is imperative. He explained.

Authors: Ji, Y; Wei, L; Da, A; Stark, H; Hagedoorn, P-L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Frontiers Media
• Journal: Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 1032220-1032220
• Article number: 1032220
• Publication date: 2022-10-21
• DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1032220
• EISSN: 2296-889X
• ISSN: 2296-889X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Dehydratase; Chemistry; Sulfur; Organic chemistry; Biology; Rectification; Biochemistry; Physics; Enzyme