Chapter 36 Pit! Big pit!
"Two hours left..."
Xue Wang's eyes were blood red, like a berserker who was exhausted on the battlefield.
Lightning fell, and ultraviolet rays shone everywhere.
This planet born has been tossed by him and is full of amino acids.
However, the twenty amino acids that make up life have not been found yet, and one is left.
Constantly looking for...
As the end of the task is getting closer and closer, we are still looking for amino acids, and there are two ladders to cross from the lowest life structure - cells.
The feeling of being unfinished and on the verge of death was very bad, which made Xue Wang more and more anxious and anxious.
Nothing is difficult in the world.
Yugong can still move mountains, why can’t I find an amino acid?
Found it!
The 20th amino acid has been found!
happy!
ecstasy!
Negative emotions such as anxiety and anxiety are instantly transformed into positive emotions.
In an instant, Xue Wang felt that the dust of the indoor waste was so cute.
However, although all twenty amino acids needed for life have been found.
However, to create life, you still need to turn them into proteins.
In fact, it does not require all twenty amino acids to synthesize a certain protein.
However, if you want to form a cell, a single protein is not enough.
therefore……
More types of proteins are needed and more possibilities are needed.
Perhaps, for professionals in biology, limited types of amino acids are enough, but Xue Wang is not professional. Just like the lightning bolt that is thinner than the bus, he is still trying his best to do miracles now.
Amino acids form peptide chains through shrinkage and polymerization, and the peptide chains are wound and spiral to form proteins.
People have their limits.
When Xue Wang searched for amino acid synthesis protein data, he was exhausted and even more desperate.
because……
He knew every word above, and he could barely understand it even after serializing it, but he looked confused when he executed it.
It’s not because he is so stupid, but because it requires too much pre-knowledge.
And this is really too difficult for a college graduate who has been fed dogs with no engineering, non-science, and high school knowledge.
Xue Wang thought for a moment and gave up thinking.
He intends to use literal meanings to synthesize proteins.
The first is "dehydration".
Of course, this is not to increase the power of the head bulb to dry the amino acids, as they seem to be quite difficult to dry.
Instead, let two or more amino acids separate and remove some of them, so that they cannot exist stably and be isolated, and can only find a partner to live together.
The removed part will form water molecules.
This is what is called "dehydration"...
Xue Wang, who gave up thinking, started doing it when he thought of this. He first jumped two amino acids to try to get them married.
It seems...it's not too difficult...
It was completed in less than a minute.
But is this protein?
No, then not.
This is a compound made by dehydrating and condensing two amino acid molecules - dipeptides, also known as small molecule peptides.
Although it does not rely on any tools and no theoretical guidance, it is also very effective to synthesize dipeptides by relying solely on "I'm thinking".
But, it's not protein!
Although it may be developed into some kind of health supplement that cannot be eaten but cannot be cured, it is of no use to Xue Wang now.
Protein molecules are public valence polypeptide chains formed by condensation of amino acids from the end to the end.
It is not a polypeptide, because polypeptides do not involve spatial structures, while proteins involve.
However, dipeptides are still too simple. Only polypeptides synthesized with more than forty amino acids can be called proteins.
Since that's the case, then increase the dose...
Xue Wang took a pair of each of the twenty amino acids and began to synthesize towards the lower limit of the protein.
Although it is easy to shrink, Xue Wang encountered new problems.
What new problems are there?
There are too many arrangements and combinations of forty amino acids, and it is no longer as simple as two-dimensional organisms as there are only two amino acids.
Simply put, it is to connect forty amino acids to the end and pinch them into a ball.
It doesn't seem difficult, but the ball is a three-dimensional structure, and the three-dimensional structure composed of dozens of amino acids is very complex.
And what types of amino acids are used, the types and numbers of each amino acid, and the order of their arrangement will be constructed one different protein after another.
Xue Wang suddenly realized that it seemed that creating life by himself was a big pit...
However, if he does not create life, where will he find the buds of life in this clean and inconspicuous birth planet?
And in the big pit of creating life, there are countless small pits.
He had just crawled out of the pit of amino acids in life and fell into the pit of protein again.
Xue Wang broke several protein balls. When he finally pinched the first protein, there were only one hour and thirty-five minutes left before the end of the task.
The dead line approaches.
Xue Wang began to synthesize more proteins.
Cells are the lowest level of life.
Among the cells, the simplest cell is Mycoplasma.
It is a prokaryotic cell without cell walls, and the only visible organelles in the cell are the ribosomes.
However, even such a simplest cell is extremely difficult to create it within an hour and a half, and the possibility is infinitely close to zero.
"Fifty-nine minutes left..."
Xue Wang has synthesized more than 30 different types of proteins.
This will create life...
In the knowledge that he had gnawed on, he still vaguely remembered that there were chromosomes in the nucleus of the cell.
Chromosomes control the formation of life.
And there are proteins and...deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid molecules in chromosomes?
ah!?
Why did I forget DNA and RNA?
Xue Wang, who thought he was only one step away from victory, suddenly found himself in a misunderstanding.
There must be amino acids and proteins in life activities, but it does not mean that only amino acids and proteins can lead to life.
His current situation is extremely embarrassing.
It was like he wanted a computer, but due to the limitations of conditions, he could only create one by hand.
He spent almost all his energy to build the motherboard, power supply, memory stick, monitor, mouse, and keyboard, but just when he thought he would have a running computer, he suddenly realized that he had not built a CPU.
DNA is equivalent to the central processor of life in a sense.
And now, Xue Wang has no...
However, the mission is not over yet, and there is still hope!
Proteins have been synthesized from scratch, can’t DNA be synthesized?
Chapter completed!