phages after phages

[AntonioLao]

Bacteriophages (phages) are complex viruses that depended on bacteria as hosts to begin their reproductive cycles. At the end of every life and death cycle, phages after phages become the new living progeny of one dead infectious agent and one dead host bacterium. Subsequently, each of these new born phages can carry on a chain reaction by killing the next nearest unlucky bacterium. This viral fission is similar to nuclear fission only for their few predecessors to many successors’ reproductive correspondences. On the other hand, one of the intermediate stages also shows similarity to nuclear fusion. This is where each viral capsid is formed by the fusion of many subunits called capsomeres. Viral fission and viral fusion formed an integral part of the complete reproductive cycle of all infectious viruses although sometimes the lives of the hosts were spared for one of the reasons that protein spare parts were readily available within the host cells.

The availability of proteins after proteins holds the key to a fortified defense against phages after phages of viral infections. Moreover, since viruses identify their host cells by a “lock-and-key” access indicator between the outer viral protein wall and the outer host protein wall, the protein locks of the host cells hold the first and only line of defense. If locks after locks of host proteins can be mutated with metallic organic compounds then the outer walls of the host cells become almost perfect defenses but at most impregnable to any virus attack and phages after phages will succumb to abject frustrations trying to open the iron gates of the hosts with their soft and fragile wooden keys.