Mittwoch, 3. September 2008

A simple story about Biology: Ricky's adventure

Jacko makes him the way free, steps away from the gap junction and allows him to dock on a microfilament. Our little friend Ricky (a proton) hails him and wishes him a great day. He wants to stay a long time here at Jacko's door because in this intramembrane space he would feel good, no stress in form of oxidizing anyone or forcing to covalently bounding to anyone, he would just relax. Jacko is a good friend of Ricky, he salutes him a couple millions of time an hour when he passes the good guarded gap junction entry. But Jacko isn't so nice to everybody who wants to pass his door: When a nuceotide wants to pass e.g. , he asks a pay in form of an ATP, that's like money, the more yout got, the more powerful you are.
Ricky enjoys his short residence with Jacko, but now it's time to enter the building and get ready for the daily work. Once he enters a microfilament binds to him, supports him till to another, bigger organelle, which will covalently interact with Ricky or just will send him otherways, what a stress! And all these reactions will happen in only a few milliseconds! But Ricky is habituated to his stressfull, but also exciting life.
At this moment Ricky is bond to a Lysosome, a digesting organelle which contains hydrolysing enzymes. That means: a lot of reactions which will need a lot of protons as well, good luck Ricky! Have a nice day...


Will Ricky exit this work-addicted organelle and will he find a place where he can take a break and maybe meet some new friends and will I catch my train to Aarau, where I will buy some Batman comics? Stay cool and be up to date...