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从随机到定向运动:理解E.简化模型中的大肠杆菌

From random to directed motion: Understanding chemotaxis in E. Coli within a simplified model

Melissa Reneaux, Manoj Gopalakrishnan

摘要:

大肠杆菌以之字形方式游动,在一系列交替发生的直线运行和翻滚中,运行持续时间取决于化学引诱剂/排斥剂的局部空间梯度。这使生物体能够向营养源移动并远离毒素。大肠杆菌的信号转导网络已经得到了很好的表征,理论建模已经被用于理解其许多显着的特征,包括对空间均匀刺激的近乎完美的适应,并取得了一定的成功。我们研究了这个网络的简化形式,受体的甲基化状态为3个而不是5个。我们推导出的翻滚率的响应函数的解析形式,并用它来计算漂移速度的细菌在存在一个弱的空间吸引梯度。

英文摘要:

The bacterium E.Coli swims in a zig-zag manner, in a series of straight runs and tumbles occurring alternately, with the run-durations dependent on the local spatial gradient of chemo-attractants/repellants. This enables the organism to move towards nutrient sources and move away from toxins. The signal transduction network of E.Coli has been well-characterized, and theoretical modeling has been used, with some success, in understanding its many remarkable features, including the near-perfect adaptation to spatially uniform stimulus. We study a reduced form of this network, with 3 methylation states for the receptor instead of 5. We derive an analytical form of the response function of the tumbling rate and use it to compute the drift velocity of the bacterium in the presence of a weak spatial attractant gradient.

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