Thursday, 24 October 2013

Question Raiser

It has been all day long I was thinking of being myself as a CELL. Do you know we can call ourselves as a cell, well may be surely Diploid. Once in our lifetime with lowest cell density and volume although ratio may vary compared to now, we were formed. Thanks to those Cells who fused with an energy that can change the world and the Fusion product is finally You.
Why not we determine ourselves as those cells and having the Potential Energy within us to derive more meaningful way of life though neighboring cells exist to compete with us.
Okay. Let's Raise a question. Obvious fro the fact that we know something and is not clear will be questioned always.

1.Why don't we(Humans) have Restriction-Modification System?
Being a single celled bacteria are invaded by virus by the genetic material directly and needs an immediate restriction system and even to protect itself from the foreign genetic composition.
Whereas in humans, we have a higher organisation and the virus invasion occurs as whole virus entering our body. Hence there are other cell types(like macrophages) and specifically cell surface markers even to detect them. And hence we developed the so called Higher Version of RM system as Immune System.

And also we are prone to invasion by pathogens like bacteria, protozoans, worms and hence we need a flexible system to carry out restrictions for all these organisms.
May be true for instance.
It raises another Question :

2.Do the bacteria are invaded ONLY by viruses?
Certainly No. As there is a sole evidence of the antibiotic Penicillin from Penicillium rubens fungi causing the death of Staphylococci and Streptococci bacteria. The fungi was used by A. Fleming.
Hence may be there are other invading organisms although through chemical entities those can kill the bacterial cells. Why it is important to know is the chemical nature of peptidoglycan layer keeps it a secret.

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