Chapter 36: The Pit! Big pit!

"Two hours left......"

Xue Wang's eyes were blood-red, like a berserker on the battlefield who had exhausted his strength.

Lightning strikes, ultraviolet rays shine.

This planet where he was born has been tossed by him with amino acids everywhere.

However, the twenty amino acids that make up life have not yet been found, and there is still one left.

Constantly on the lookout for ......

The time is getting closer and closer to the end of the mission, and we are still looking for amino acids, and there are still two steps to cross from the lowest life structure - cells.

The feeling of being unfinished and on the verge of death was terrible, which made Xue Wang more and more anxious and anxious.

There is nothing difficult in the world.

Yugong can still move mountains, why can't I Xue Wang find an amino acid?

Got it!

The twentieth amino acid has been found!

Glad!

Ecstasy!

Negative emotions such as anxiety and anxiety are transformed into positive emotions in an instant.

In an instant, Xue Wang felt that the dust of the indoor waste was so cute.

However, although twenty amino acids needed for life have been found.

However, in order to create life, they also need to be turned into proteins.

In fact, the synthesis of a certain protein does not require all 20 amino acids.

However, to make up a cell, a single protein is not enough.

Therefore......

More kinds of protein are needed, more possibilities are needed.

Perhaps, for biology professionals, a limited variety of amino acids is enough, but Xue Wang is not a professional. Like the lightning bolt that was thinner than the bus, he still worked a miracle now.

Amino acids are polymerized by shrinkage to form peptide chains, which are wound and helical to form proteins.

There are limits to human beings.

When Xue Wang looked for amino acid synthesis protein information, he was already exhausted, and he was even more desperate.

Because......

He knew every word on it, and he could barely understand it when serialized together, but he was at a loss as to how to execute it.

Not because of how stupid he is, but because it requires too much prior knowledge.

And this is too difficult for a college graduate who is not engineering, non-science, and has been fed to the dog with high school knowledge.

Xue Wang thought for a while, and then gave up thinking.

He intends to use the literal meaning of the word 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, which seem to be quite difficult to dry.

Instead, let the two and more than two amino acids alone be dismantled separately, so that they cannot exist stably in isolation, and can only find the other half to live together.

And the dismantled part will form water molecules.

This is called "dehydration......

Xue Wang, who gave up thinking, thought of this and began to do it, he first jumped two amino acids to try to get them married.

Seem...... It's not too hard......

It took less than a minute to complete.

But is this protein?

No, it's not.

This is a compound formed by the dehydration and condensation of two amino acid molecules, a dipeptide, also known as a small molecule peptide.

Although I don't rely on any tools and no theoretical guidance, I just rely on "I think", and I can synthesize dipeptides very well.

But it's not protein!

Although it may be able to be developed into some kind of health care product that can't die after eating, but it can't be cured, but this is of no use to the current Xue Wang.

A protein molecule is a common polypeptide chain formed by condensation of amino acids end-to-end.

It is not considered a polypeptide because a polypeptide is not involved in spatial structure whereas proteins are.

However, dipeptides are still too simple, and only polypeptides with more than 40 amino acids can be called proteins.

In that case, let's increase the dose......

Xue Wang took a pair of each of the twenty amino acids and began to synthesize them towards the lower limit of the protein.

Although it was easy to shrink, Xue Wang encountered a new problem.

What's the new problem?

There are so many permutations and combinations of forty amino acids that it is no longer as simple as a two-dimensional organism with only two amino acids.

To put it simply, it is to connect forty amino acids end to end and knead 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 which types of amino acids are used, the types and quantities of each amino acids, and the order in which they are arranged, will create one different protein after another.

Xue Wang suddenly found that it seemed that creating life by himself was a big pit......

However, if he does not create life, where will he go to find the sprout of life in this clean and unspeakable 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 of life and fell into the pit of protein.

Xue Wang pinched several protein balls, and when he finally pinched out the first protein, there was only an hour and thirty-five minutes left before the end of the mission.

The dead line is approaching.

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 a cell wall, and the only visible organelles in the cell are ribosomes.

However, even the simplest of such cells is extremely difficult to make in an hour and a half, and the possibilities are infinitely close to zero.

"Fifty-nine minutes left......"

Xue Wang has synthesized more than 30 different kinds of proteins.

That's how life can be created......

In the knowledge that he has chewed, he still vaguely remembers that there are chromosomes in the nucleus.

Chromosomes control the formation of life.

And the chromosomes have proteins and ...... DNA and RNA molecules?

Yes!?

How did I forget DNA and RNA?

Xue Wang, who originally thought that 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 there can be life only with amino acids and proteins.

He was in an awkward position.

It's like he wants a computer, but he has to build one by hand.

He spent almost all of his energy building a motherboard, a power supply, a memory module, a monitor, a mouse, and a keyboard, but just when he thought he would soon have a computer that could run, he suddenly realized that he didn't have a CPU.

DNA is the central processing unit of life in a sense.

And now, Xue Wang didn't ......

However, the mission is not over yet, there is hope!

Proteins have been synthesized from scratch, so can't DNA be synthesized?

Xue Wang began to check the information again......