User talk:Fdemsas/p11 project rough draft

"The discovery of the p11 protein is accredited to Dr. Paul Greengard" -- this first sentence is incorrect. In fact, p11 (also called calpactin I light chain, cellular ligand of annexin II, S100A10 etc.) was discovered long before the papers on p11 and serotonin receptors were published. The interested reader is referred to a review by Svenningsson and Greengard in which some of the history of p11 is recounted (Curr Opin Pharmacol. 2007 Feb;7(1):27-32. Epub 2006 Nov 7; DOI 10.1016/j.coph.2006.10.001). Unfortunately, the NIH press release that is cited in the present draft incorrectly calls p11 a "newfound protein" (which it is not, see above) and thus contributes to the confusion.

Overall, p11 is not an ideal descriptor of the protein in question. Some of the old papers call it "p10" and other names are frequently used in the literature (see above and http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/gs/91974.html). Anyone truly interested in p11 needs to exercise caution when querying the published literature -- simply using "p11" as a search term will not be very helpful, as many results will be missed.