defects in fucK?

Notice anything that seems to be out of place here? Read line one of paragraph 2. This is an excerpt from a biological article discussing the influence of various carbon sources on the colonization of E. coli in the mouse intestine.
Chang, D. E., D. J. Smalley, D. L. Tucker, M. P. Leatham, W. E. Norris, S. J. Stevenson, A. B. Anderson, J. E. Grissom, D. C. Laux, P. S. Cohen, and T. Conway. 2004. Carbon nutrition of Escherichia coli in the mouse intestine. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:7427-32.
Recognize one word that does not seem to be a suitable scientifically ethical word in the article? While some of us uses it unintentionally or intentionally to describe an activity or to express the feeling of being pissed off, here, the word is used to describe a gene. It also has a style with it that it ends with a uppercase K. The paper describe a whole group of genes but for various reasons, the fucK gene, among few others, plays a significant role in the maintenance of E. coli in the intestinal habitat.

This is probably the only time one would see this word published in a very prestigious scientific journal..wonder if the scientist who gave the name realize what was he up to or if he named it after a 'wonderful' night of celebration for the discovery of the gene.

~interesting~