Talk:Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase

Gene and protein capitalization, italization

According to Wikipedia guidelines for human genes and proteins (Gene nomenclature#Human) both gene and protein names are capitalized, with gene names being italicized, and protein names not being italicized. I am applying this standard to this article. --Ben Best:Talk 15:20, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

After beginning to correct capitalizations, I notice that the correct form was being used in most cases, and that the article had been very inconsistent about this matter. There was also much confusion about the difference between the intracellular and extracellular forms. --Ben Best:Talk 15:30, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Further research has convinced me that my choice of formatting standard is less controversial than I imagined, and is commonly used in papers written by leading researchers in the field. --Ben Best:Talk 22:21, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

For all vertebrates the nomenclature is confusing (Gene nomenclature#Vertebrate gene and protein symbol conventions), notably for the species most used in experimental studies, the rat and mouse. Whereas for humans the gene is NAMPT and the protein is NAMPT, for rat and mouse, the gene is Nampt and the protein is NAMPT. --Ben Best:Talk 12:18, 10 November 2020 (UTC)