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> Most of the mystery essential genes are vague cell wall proteins. Probably what is going on is that if you knock out too many of these genes, you lose cell wa
by whoopdedo 10y ago
> Most of the mystery essential genes are vague cell wall proteins. Probably what is going on is that if you knock out too many of these genes, you lose cell wall turgidity and the cell becomes nonviable. So what is important is not so much which of these genes you have, but how many of them you have.
Sounds like dependency hell. Gene A only works in the presence of Gene B which only works when there's Gene C which needs Gene A. Knock any one of them out and everything breaks.
- rosser 10y ago> Sounds like dependency hell. Random mutations are like that. It's almost like no-one was planning out how these things should work, and whatever did work stuck. Weird, huh?
- tadfisher 10y agoIn other words, God writes spaghetti code.
- Eerie 10y agoPraise his noodly appendage!
- amitprayal 10y agoGod writes code that writes code that writes code ... that writes spaghetii code
- jhou2 10y agoIn this simplified system, the number of these cell wall genes in the genome is proportional to the quantity of the cell wall proteins produced. It's more of a quantity issue, rather than a dependency issue. For example, having more developers usually results in more lines of code written in a given period of time, especially in enterprise. The quality of code might be questionable but the quantity is usually there.