More than a year ago, I received an email from the international committee that determines human gene symbols. Each NELF subunit has unrelated gene symbols that look nonsensical to an outsider, such as WHSC2, COBRA, TH1L, and RDBP. The email asked the researchers involved if it was acceptable to rename them.
Since then, the gene symbols have remained the same and I had forgotten about it, but today I happened to look at Entrez Gene and found that they had been renamed NELFA, NELFB, NELFCD, and NELFE.
For those who are not involved, this may be really irrelevant, but as the person who named them, I feel as happy as if I had won a big prize. Thanks to the many members of the lab, the work of NELF has evolved and led to the name change, and I would like to thank the alumni and current members of the lab again.
Yamaguchi