The Cellular Adaptation of Vascular Endothelial Cells

Many organisms are presented in various environments all over the world. Some of them see extreme environments as their cradles of life: volcano hot spring, extremely salty lake water or even deep ocean where there lacks light or oxygen. But these organisms have their very own mechanisms; have already embedded in their genetic materials. But there are also organisms showed adaptations to some experimental environments in researches, which proves that these adaptive mechanism are not only genetically determined, but also can be triggered when these special functions are needed as one fundamental strategy of surviving in the nature. But not only the organisms live in extreme conditions have the ability to find strategies to survive. These adaptations can be explored in our very own body.

The organisms will be discussed in the following paragraph will be mostly single cells or even organic molecules. Since the following aspects of discussions will be focusing about the cellular functions or strategies of regulations of the homeostasis.

Some organisms like the extreme thermophiles (Campbell, N. A., et. Al, 2009), can survive in inhabitable environment, which is the acrhaea in the genus Sulfolobus. These archaea can survive and function normally in the sulphur-rich volcanic springs, where could be hot as 90 degree Celsius, lack of food and contain a high dosage of sulphur. Normally, most organisms would not be able to survive as the protein that constructs our body tissue will change their shape under the heat (above 90 degree Celsius), and these changes of the shape can lead to the dysfunction and denature of the enzymes. (But these Sulfolobus have their special genetic information sequencing so their ribosome can induce the...

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