Element 117 has been given a temporary symbol of Uus, but a petition instigated by Dr Kat Day, a chemist, blogger and self-proclaimed "huge" Pratchett fan, wants 117 to be named octarine [Oc] as a tribute to Pratchett, who passed away aged 66 from Alzheimer's disease in March 2015.
It has a temporary name and temporary symbol Uut.
Ununseptium is a superheavy artificial chemical element with temporary symbol Uus and atomic number 117.
Ununpentium is the temporary name of a synthetic superheavy element in the periodic table that has the temporary symbol Uup and has the atomic number 115.
The IT 0; gene therefore retained the symbol Sr47 and the IT 2 gene is assigned the temporary gene symbol SrAes7t.
This week's element is ununtrium, which has the temporary atomic symbol, Uut, and the atmonic number, 113.
One gene conditioning an infection type (IT) 2 was located in the same chromosomal region of 2BS as Sr39 and was assigned the temporary gene symbol SrAes7t.
However, in the absence of experimentally verified function, genes may be assigned an anonymous and temporary gene symbol based on their sequence/structural similarity to other genes.
In cases where there is no strict 1 1 human ortholog that has been assigned nomenclature, the LOC# or Ensembl ID will be used as the temporary gene symbol.
