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arXiv 2005.10782physics.bio-phcond-mat.softphysics.flu-dyn
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细菌鞭毛缠绕的几何约束

Geometrical constraints on the tangling of bacterial flagellar filaments

Maria Tătulea-Codrean, Eric Lauga

摘要:

许多种类的细菌通过旋转多螺旋鞭毛在粘性环境中游动。细丝聚集在细胞体后面,形成一个紧密的螺旋束,在“运行”过程中推动细胞前进。束内的细丝不能被连续地致动,如果它们彼此缠绕,它们也不能容易地解开。细菌可以被动地形成连贯的束,即不包含缠结的细丝对的束,这一事实似乎令人惊讶,因为鞭毛是由不协调的马达驱动的。在这篇文章中,我们建立了理论条件下,一对刚性螺旋丝可以形成一个纠缠的束,我们比较这些约束与文献中收集的实验数据。我们的研究结果表明,细菌鞭毛太直,相距太远,无法单独基于其内在的未变形几何形状形成缠结的束。这使得相干束的形成相对于成束过程的被动性质更稳健,其中单个细丝的位置不能被控制。

英文摘要:

Many species of bacteria swim through viscous environments by rotating multiple helical flagella. The filaments gather behind the cell body and form a close helical bundle, which propels the cell forward during a "run". The filaments inside the bundle cannot be continuously actuated, nor can they easily unbundle, if they are tangled around one another. The fact that bacteria can passively form coherent bundles, i.e. bundles which do not contain tangled pairs of filaments, may appear surprising given that flagella are actuated by uncoordinated motors. In this article, we establish the theoretical conditions under which a pair of rigid helical filaments can form a tangled bundle, and we compare these constraints with experimental data collected from the literature. Our results suggest that bacterial flagella are too straight and too far apart to form tangled bundles based on their intrinsic, undeformed geometry alone. This makes the formation of coherent bundles more robust against the passive nature of the bundling process, where the position of individual filaments cannot be controlled.

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