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What is Paramecium?

This is a small, cylindrical protozoa with only one cell. It is a single-celled animal and hermaphrodite.

The most common one is Paramecia. Its body length is only 180 to 280 microns. It has the shortest lifespan with the amoeba. Calculated in hours, the lifespan is about one day and night. Because its body shape looks like an upside-down animal from a planar angle.

They have grass soles and are called paramecium.

Hayfrick, on the other hand, was studying Paramecium at this time.

Repair proteins of damaged tissue are terrible.

This repair protein that has lost its most basic recognition ability has become a parasite similar to a virus - the characteristics of this protein are so similar to viruses, Hayfrick had to think so.

Of course, this repair protein is not exactly the same as a virus. Although this repair protein is a protein, it does not have the genetic material of RNA or DNA, so it cannot be transmitted. Although it will "infect cells", it will not amplify the disease.

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Although there are also life forms that use proteins as genetic material, these are not repair proteins.

In Hayfrick's view, "Mr. Smith's" alternating proteins are more like a kind of protein life. However, although the other party can synthesize various substances, it has no way to synthesize itself and cannot "reproduce", so it cannot be called a protein.

It is a life form.

Under the electron microscope, every move of the paramecium was observed by Hayfrick.

The whole body of Paramecium is composed of one cell. There is a pair of formed cell nuclei in the body, namely the vegetative nucleus and the reproductive nucleus. The former is also called the macronucleus, and the latter is also called the micronucleus. Although this life is single-celled, it also carries out sexual reproduction.

.During reproduction, the small nucleus divides, the large nucleus disappears, and the small nucleus gradually grows to form a new large nucleus and a small nucleus, so it is called a eukaryotic organism.

The surface of its body is covered with a membrane, which in addition to maintaining the body shape of the paramecium, is also responsible for internal and external gas exchange, absorbing oxygen in the water, and emitting carbon dioxide.

The membrane is densely covered with nearly ten thousand cilia, which rotate in the water through the paddling of the cilia.

In Hayfrick's opinion, Paramecium is a very good experimental subject.

It is obviously impossible for Mr. Smith to provide his own cells, and even if other people's cells are useful, it is impossible to continue to provide them.

If you want to carry out "mass production", the first thing you need is a convenient raw material.

At this time, Smith thought of E. coli, other bacterial life, etc.

But at the end of the experiment, Smith discovered that so far, only Paramecium had met his requirements.//

Compared with Paramecia, bacteria do not have mature nuclei, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, lysosomes, centrosomes and secondary vacuoles, and are not complete structures that can be used for experiments.

Although repair proteins require cells, repair proteins do not require the nucleus of the cell itself. Instead, they are "anti-guest".

In Paramecium, this characteristic is expressed most vividly.

There is a small concave groove on one side of the paramecium's body, called the "mouth groove", which is equivalent to the "mouth" of the paramecium.

When the dense and long cilia in the oral groove swing, they can put bacteria and organic debris in the water as food into the oral groove. The side without the oral groove will rotate in a circle with the edge as the vertex, and larger debris will be discharged by the cilia.

, and then enters the body of the paramecium, forming a food bubble for it to slowly digest and absorb.

Food residue is excreted through the anus.

Paramecia are the most primitive and lowest protozoa in the animal kingdom.

Of course, although this thing is small, it is not simple.

It likes to live in ditches with high organic content or ponds with slow water flow, and feeds on bacteria and algae. It is estimated that a paramecium can form about 60 food bubbles per hour. Each food bubble contains about

30 bacteria, therefore, a paramecium can eat approximately 30 bacteria per day, which has a certain purification effect on sewage.

But now, this paramecium's mouth grooves and other features have disappeared, and its surface has also undergone drastic changes.

Um……

Hayfrick suddenly thought of "Resident Evil".

When I bought an nrbus game console for my son, I was attracted by the interesting T-virus and played that game for a long time.

For Paramecium, the repair protein is its "T virus".

At this time, the repair protein has completely replaced the "brain" of the Paramecium, which is the nucleus of the Paramecium.

At this time, the repair protein is controlling this puppet and doing what it wants to do - synthesis.

Although the protein structure has been damaged, the part related to synthesis remains intact.

The protein retrosynthesizes the messenger RNA, and then these RNAs are used in the body cells of the paramecium itself to carry out the synthesis of the organism.

After the paramecium is completely shriveled, the repair protein will look for other puppets, and then continue to synthesize organic matter until the other paramecium also dies. Then this process will continue until the repair protein completely collapses.

This process takes about three days.

Hayfrick has even done experiments. Although this repair protein will not be affected by other repair proteins, it will still be "harmonized" when it encounters replacement proteins, even when it is encountered by human white blood cells.

, will also be eliminated as foreign substances, which already shows that this kind of life form has two different existences from the original repair protein.

For this reason, Hayfrick named it S protein.

The reason why it is S protein is just because of the existence of T virus, because S comes in front of T. In Hayfrick's view, this thing is the T virus of Paramecium, which means it lacks infectivity.

If this S protein can also be contagious...then it will really be the T-virus of the Paramecium world...

"It would be great if I could replicate myself. In this case, I don't have to continue to find ways to synthesize it. I can just continuously get new proteins..."

Hayfrick really wanted to make it replicable...

However, in Hayfrick's view, this S protein is not perfect, because it will always synthesize organic matter, no matter what it is, whether it is organic matter, silicide, as long as it is of the same type,

This thing will continuously synthesize it according to a certain structure, and finally obtain the product, but in Hayfrick's view, this "hodgepodge" is completely useless.

However, this is not completely impossible.

As long as this protein can be synthesized in large quantities, and then these paramecium are thrown into a solvent containing only selected materials and allowed to be parasitized, enough products can be synthesized... Of course, among these, paramecium

The corpses of insects will also become magazines, but they can basically ensure sufficient purity, and the rest can only be purified...···

“It’s perfect!”

Hayfrick was impressed by his idea.

Once this idea is realized, it will inevitably usher in a sensation in the scientific and materials circles!

As long as we figure out the rules of synthesis, then put in the corresponding semi-finished products, and let these repair proteins be synthesized without thinking, the next work will be much simpler. Maybe humans can get unexpected things, such as some

Emerging organic products, or more simply things that humans cannot yet synthesize...

And if this happens, everything will undergo drastic changes, and the whole world will be shaken!

As for the synthesis of this S protein, Hayfrick already has an idea. The previous research results of another damaged protein are not without merit. That kind of synthetic material is more troublesome, far less than the current one.

With such convenience, Hayfrick is very optimistic that he can find a synthesis method in the laboratory in just over half a year, and it only takes about five to five to conduct research on industrial production.

It's only ten years.

"What will happen if a sufficient amount of S protein enters the human body?"

At this moment, Hayfrick suddenly had this idea.

The amount of S protein I got at the beginning was very small, and there was no reaction when it entered the human body. But once I was able to produce a large amount of S protein, what changes would happen to this protein by that time?

It's just that Hayfrick's moral and professional ethics do not allow Hayfrick to conduct such human experiments. This idea of ​​​​Hayfrick just flashed through his mind. He absolutely does not want it.

I would like to do human trials.

"Although... the human body cannot, but if it is a dead body, is it possible? As long as not all the cells in the body are dead, as long as the S protein can be parasitized, then next,

Will this protein drive the human body? Or will there be any interesting changes?"

Although Hayfrick was very ethical, at this time, he still couldn't help but fantasize in his mind.

"If... it is parasitic to the nervous system, will there be any unexpected consequences?"

Damn it! Why do I keep thinking about the human body? The human body!

Hayfrick suddenly wanted to slap himself.

—Isn’t it enough to use mice for experiments now?!

White mice are a very convenient tool in the laboratory, and there is no psychological pressure to kill them.

And because of its small size, the amount of S protein that needs to be consumed is not very large, so you can do the experiment by yourself now!

Reluctantly looking at the struggling Paramecium, Hayfrick, who was "feeling in love with each other", was already preparing to conduct experiments on mice.

Because of the wonderful thought at the beginning, Hayfrick could no longer bear it at this time.

He has a strong thirst for knowledge and eagerly wants to know what will happen next...

Third update...

Everything in front of my eyes is blurry...

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