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大肠杆菌趋化性的最优搜索

Optimal search in E.coli chemotaxis

Subrata Dev, Sakuntala Chatterjee

摘要:

我们研究了单个{ \sl E.coli}细菌在培养基中的趋化性,其中营养化学物质也在扩散,其浓度具有宽度随时间增加的高斯形式。我们测量了细菌在高营养浓度区域的平均首次通过时间。在非常缓慢的营养扩散的限制下,细菌有效地经历具有固定宽度的高斯浓度分布。在这种情况下,我们发现当平均第一通过时间最小时,存在高斯的最佳宽度,{ \sl,即},搜索过程是最有效的。我们验证了细菌的确定性初始位置和随机初始位置的最佳宽度的存在,从均匀和稳定状态分布。我们在一个非马尔可夫随机步行模型的数值模拟同意我们在相关的粗粒度模型的分析计算。我们还提出了我们的模拟结果的情况下,当营养扩散和细菌运动发生在可比的时间尺度和细菌的感觉随时间变化的浓度场。

英文摘要:

We study chemotaxis of a single {\sl E.coli} bacterium in a medium where the nutrient chemical is also undergoing diffusion and its concentration has the form of a Gaussian whose width increases with time. We measure the average first passage time of the bacterium at a region of high nutrient concentration. In the limit of very slow nutrient diffusion, the bacterium effectively experiences a Gaussian concentration profile with a fixed width. In this case we find that there exists an optimum width of the Gaussian when the average first passage time is minimum, {\sl i.e.}, the search process is most efficient. We verify the existence of the optimum width for the deterministic initial position of the bacterium and also for the stochastic initial position, drawn from uniform and steady state distributions. Our numerical simulation in a model of a non-Markovian random walker agrees well with our analytical calculations in a related coarse-grained model. We also present our simulation results for the case when the nutrient diffusion and bacterial motion occur over comparable time-scales and the bacterium senses a time-varying concentration field.

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