The unofficial Wump nomenclature
A wump is a fictitious creature with one or more humps created by Dr. Seuss, a writer of humorous verse for children and adults. In this nomenclature system, each thrombospondin repeats/modules is a hump. Therefore depending on the number of TS modules, members of this family can be classified as one hump wumps (ADAMTS-4), two hump wumps (ADAMTS-5-8), three hump wumps (ADAMTS-1, -15), four hump wumps (ADAMTS-2-3, -14), five hump wumps (ADAMTS-10), fifteen hump wumps (ADAMTS-9B) and eighteen hump wumps (GON-1). Additional levels of humpage may be generated by alternative splicing of these wumps. New levels of wumpage may be introduced by cloning and discovery of new genes in this family.
