How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 5: Toxic Bacteriophage

From the beginning of his recovery, Huogu has been at a disadvantage, because the single-cell cluster does not have \'visual\' and is very passive.

Only when those foreign cells come into contact with single-cell clusters can Huo Gu know the existence of each other.

If the original human body is fine, even if there is no vision, it can judge the surrounding objects by feeling the direction of liquid flow through the neural network of the skin.

But the problem is that the single-cell cluster that Huo Gu is currently boarding is too simple, so this kind of thing is also difficult to do.

To resist those external threats, Huo Gu can only retreat to implement passive defense, and the key to this passive defense lies in the cell wall.

"The main attack method of bacteriophage is infection, followed by the dove occupying the magpie\'s nest. In the parasitic cells, it replicates a large number of its own cells. After reaching a certain number, it destroys the cell membrane and cell walls from the inside out in various ways..."

"So... the key to defending against this kind of enemy is that in the initial stage of infection, as long as this link is destroyed, those guys will take me for the time being."

So, a question is put in front of Huo Gu - how can it destroy the infection stage of bacteriophage?

The key to defending phage lies in the cell wall. However, this is just Huo Gu\'s idea. What the specific details are, I haven\'t figured out yet.

"The mild phage at the beginning, in the form of injection, bypassed the cell membrane responsible for defense and implanted its own genes into a single cell..."

"If the cell wall is thick enough and the gap is small enough to only allow small molecules to enter and exit, well, in this way, it can play a good defensive role."

With a general direction, it is much faster in terms of supplementing details. Huo Gu did not spend much energy to finalize the travel of the cell wall.

Suddenly, Huo Gu thought of something.

"Wait! If it is like some influenza viruses, deliberately destroy their protein shell, directly transport gene fragments, and bypass small molecular voids in the cell wall..."

"Only the specialized type can maximize the effect. If the cell wall takes into account the function of screening, the protective effect is..."

Huo Gu\'s attention gradually shifted to the position of the cell membrane.

"The screening function is given to the cell membrane, and the defense work is left to the cell wall."

"If the cell wall can be broken through, the defense of the cell membrane will not play much role. After all, the \'contraorative\' is not as effective as the \'specialized\'."

In order to make a better comparison, Huo Gu unspined and replicated the gene in the empty shell of the bacteriophage protein in the gene chain.

After a while, the bacteriophage protein shell appeared in front of Huo Gu.

"This..."

When he saw the protein shell of the bacteriophage, Huo Gu was in trouble.

With physical comparison, it found that the bacteriophage is very small. If the single cell as a host is a tall building, the bacteriophage is the size of a human or a pet dog.

This is indeed very different from what it thinks.

"That is to say, the opening of the cell wall should be designed to the extent that it can only pass through a single small molecule to block bacteriophages?"

At this moment, another unexpected visitor met the single-cell cluster.

As Huo Gu was worried, the killer of the microbial world is a bacteriophage, and this time, God does not intend to continue to favor Huo Gu and this single-cell cluster.

After the gene fragments invaded the outermost single cells, the bacteriophage immediately declared its sovereignty over the parasitic cell, madly transcribing its own genes, and creating a large number of bacteriophage genes and those protein shells.

Obviously, this is a toxic bacteriophage.

"Damn it!"

Huo Gu almost cursed that the parasitic is a single cell with protein structure connection, which means that it is impossible to immediately separate from the whole cell cluster as last time.

Dare not hesitate to hesitate much, Huo Gu immediately commanded the cells to divide and isolate the infected single cells.

It is not a single cell that is directly connected to the parasitic cell, but the cell at the edge of the entire region centered on the parasitic cell.

This is done just in case, the speed of individual separation in a single-cell cluster is the speed of single-cell replication. If the speed of single-cell self-replication cannot catch up with the speed of this group of bacteriophage breaking parasitic cells, then it is just a meaningless act to divide and isolate the docking cells.

The result of the failure of separation is that there will be a large area, or even the entire single-cell cluster, will be infected.

Huo Gu can\'t afford to take this risk.

The development of the situation, as Huo Gu worried, is even worse. Those toxic bacteriophages have broken the cell membrane of parasitic cells and infected other cells faster than expected.

At this time, the lysed division of single cells is only halfway through.

Huo Gu\'s heart hung up and focused on the cells that were dividing.

In the past, those single cells that were able to divide at a good rate in his opinion now seem to be slow to the speed of the turtle.

"Hurry up... Hurry up... Hurry up..."

The attention repeatedly moved between the cells and the bacteriophage, and Huo Gu was unconsciously urging the single cells that split.

Time passes by minute by minute.

I don\'t know whether this kind of shrendous urging has really had a certain degree of effect, or is it just a good coincidence that the single cell is dividing, the single cell is the first to complete the division, separating and abandoning the whole single-cell area in the vast darkness to avoid the second large-scale infection of the toxic bacteriophage. .

"This kind of thing can\'t happen again. The cell wall must be debugged as soon as possible."

Huo Gu, who experienced this toxic phage crisis, had lingering palpitations and was more eager to complete the cell wall that could resist bacteriophage.

After replenishing the cells of the missing part of the single-cell cluster, Huogu began to make the cell wall.

The thickness of the cell wall is not a problem. As long as the manufacturing of the cell wall is repeated many times, a superposition effect can be formed to increase the thickness of the cell wall.

The problem that plagues Huo Gu now is the permeability of the cell wall. This accidentally obtained cell wall, a tunnel that interacts with matter, can accommodate several bacteriophages in and out.

Obviously, this tunnel is too big, and this accidentally obtained cell wall has no resistance against those bacteriophages.

If it is a single, as long as it does not enter the tunnel, it can resist, but if it is facing a clustered bacteriophage, it is almost inevitable that a bacteriophage enters the tunnel.

"We must find a way to shrink this tunnel."