IIRC, the discoverer of the RING protein domain couldn't come up with a name so they called it Really Interesting New Gene (RING) which duos as a pun for a ring

IIRC, the discoverer of the RING protein domain couldn't come up with a name so they called it Really Interesting New Gene (RING) which duos as a pun for a ring finger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RING_finger_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RING_finger_domain