All she knew was that the virus started the destruction directly inside a cell body, then lysed that cell and released more virus, circulating the infection, transcription, replication, lysis, and spreading the infection until all the cells that could be destroyed were killed.

And the harm that bacteria do to other organisms is not only to become pathogens themselves, they also secrete many toxins and amplify the damage.

"This is a prophage, a proviral gene that can be inserted or aggregated in the circovirus DNA chromosome, or in the form of a plastid outside the chromosome. This is a potential viral form in which the virus exists in this form but does not disintegrate the bacterial cells. Tang Yang explained.

This knowledge can be learned by looking it up casually, but he doesn't mind spending a little more effort on it.

"In other words, Pinatella has a symbiosis with this prophage?" Lin Yulin asked incredulously.

The paranormal person symbiotes with Pinatella, and Pinatella symbiosis with protophages, which is almost the same as a kind of national souvenir of the Soviet Union - nesting dolls.

Tang Yang agreed with Lin Yulin's symbiosis, and added: "Yes, this protophage is very domineering and sensitive. ”

"Why do you say that?" Lin Yulin looked at the round Pinatellus, which was not much different from the electron microscope photos he had seen before.

"Generally speaking, when damage to the host cell is detected, either by UV light or some chemical, the prophage in the bacterial chromosome is activated, a process called prophage induction. I just changed the temperature, raised it a little bit, and it became like this. ”

As he spoke, Tang Yang put on a new photo.

This photo can be described as very miserable.

There was only a small clump of tiny balls of yarn-like phages, and some cookie-like fragments of Pinath capsule, if she guessed correctly.

If Pinatella is crushed like this, then the phagocytes in the human body can completely engulf them and destroy them.

Lu Jiyao, who had always been calm, couldn't help but ask out loud: "Pinaert bacteria have really become like this?" ”

Tang Yang went on to explain: "After warming-induced activation, the virus begins to replicate and begins the lysis cycle, which occupies the reproductive site of the cell. The cells will be enriched with virus until the cells are lysed and the virus is released. The phage released is a highly virulent virus. ”

This property of bacteriophages is also often used by people in the world to target cancer cells and the like, and it is already an approved treatment.

After hearing this, Lin Yulin immediately thought of the drastic changes in the environment after the catastrophe and the increase in temperature.

The spread and mutation of the fusion bacteria were undoubtedly positively correlated with the increased temperature.

With this prophage, is it possible to stop the mutation of bacteria? At least at the first time the bacteria mutate, the prophage turns them into slag, and then human autoimmunity can work.

She said this question in her heart, Tang Yang looked at her, with a look of "teachable", and even wanted her to come back to do research, maybe she could continue the research he couldn't complete, and don't care about the affairs of those supernatural people.

The world of microbes is the most beautiful, isn't it?

However, thinking that his time was short, he was afraid that he would not be able to teach Lin Yulin anything, so he regretfully gave up this idea.

"Yes, as long as it is a mutation of Pinatella caused by a significant increase in temperature, it can be solved by prophages."

After Tang Yang finished speaking, he felt that he didn't seem to be too rigorous, and added: "However, I haven't figured out the symbiosis between Pinatella and humans yet. If the bacteriophage kills Pinatella, it may cause the ability to disappear as well. I'll have to dig a little further before I can answer you. ”

What Tang Yang didn't say was that whether this bacteriophage is harmful to humans itself still needs to be viewed with caution.

Lin Yulin suppressed the excitement in his heart, compared to death, what is the gain of losing his ability?!

But this is only her thoughts, maybe there are really people who are willing to die with their abilities.

"Can this prophage be directly infected?" She thought of the exchange with Lu Jiyao a few days ago, if it could be directly infected, the Pinatella bacteria in her body might have carried the gene of this provirus.

"I don't know, but it's very likely. I'm not particularly surprised that the prophage that can live and latent in symbiosis with the mysterious Pinaert bacterium has any other special properties. Tang Yang didn't think about this problem, but other prophages can't break through the limitations of the human body and infect other people.

Lu Jiyao suddenly stood up from his chair, his face was already ugly, he obviously thought of the exchange that day.

Lin Yulin knew that he was angry, so he hurriedly got up and stroked his hair on his back twice.

What matters now is to confirm that there are protophages lurking on her body, so she asked Tang Yang to also use this method to test her blood.

"I get along with Brother Ji Yao day and night, maybe I'm also infected, you can help me test it!"

And Lu Jiyao was so smooth by her, many of the thoughts of "teaching his girlfriend" that had turned in his heart disappeared.

She should like herself too much, and she really can't help it, so she will ignore these risks, right?

She didn't care, she should be brave.

Maybe there is no solution to this phage, and the infection is a matter of time, and it can't be Plato for the rest of his life, right?

Thinking like this, Lu Jiyao's face improved a lot, obviously he had coaxed himself well, and his eyes when he looked at her became gentle like water.

Tang Yang didn't understand why Lu Jiyao had kept a straight face just now, and it was sunny and cloudy in an instant.

In a blink of an eye, I saw the pair of simple platinum rings on the hands of the two of them, and I only felt that I was in a panic today, and I could save a dinner.

He didn't care about the man who was far from his goddess's personality, and personally drew Lin Yulin's blood, and was going to hurry up to test it next.

But before that, he still has some small achievements to tell Lin Yulin.

In animal experiments over the past period, he discovered that Pinatella produces a special substance.

These substances accumulate in the temporal orifice of the animal, corroding the temporal orifice, and then the animal begins to behave abnormally.

He understood that Pinatella could only manifest this wonderful symbiosis in humans, primates with only a pair of tempotemporal foramen, and had a chance to activate the ability.

The same bacteria, when it comes to animals, they will only suffer fatal damage.

He searched through all the information he could find, and even asked his two big assistants to help him through the information, but he couldn't classify the bacteria.