Absolutely love this breakdown of biochem terminology. The pattern recognition angle is spot-on because once you realize that kinases add phosphates and phosphatases remove them, suddenly a huge chunk of cell signaling literatrue becomes way less intimidating. I rmember struggling through papers on signal transduction pathways until I internalized these prefixes, and it genuinely felt like gaining a decoder ring. One thing I'd add is that the -ome suffix (proteome, transcriptome) tends to confuse people at first but follows the same logic.
Absolutely love this breakdown of biochem terminology. The pattern recognition angle is spot-on because once you realize that kinases add phosphates and phosphatases remove them, suddenly a huge chunk of cell signaling literatrue becomes way less intimidating. I rmember struggling through papers on signal transduction pathways until I internalized these prefixes, and it genuinely felt like gaining a decoder ring. One thing I'd add is that the -ome suffix (proteome, transcriptome) tends to confuse people at first but follows the same logic.
Thanks! Have added -ome to the list