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ArticleBiophysical journal2017

Drift and Behavior of E. coli Cells.

Gabriele Micali, Rémy Colin, Victor Sourjik, Robert G Endres

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gabriele MicaliDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland; Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Rémy ColinMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany; LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Marburg, Germany.
Victor SourjikMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany; LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Marburg, Germany. Electronic address: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de.
Robert G EndresDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: r.endres@imperial.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G000131/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemotaxis of the bacterium Escherichia coli is well understood in shallow chemical gradients, but its swimming behavior remains difficult to interpret in steep gradients. By focusing on single-cell trajectories from simulations, we investigated the dependence of the chemotactic drift velocity on attractant concentration in an exponential gradient. Whereas maxima of the average drift velocity can be interpreted within analytical linear-response theory of chemotaxis in shallow gradients, limits in drift due to steep gradients and finite number of receptor-methylation sites for adaptation go beyond perturbation theory. For instance, we found a surprising pinning of the cells to the concentration in the gradient at which cells run out of methylation sites. To validate the positions of maximal drift, we recorded single-cell trajectories in carefully designed chemical gradients using microfluidics.

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ChemotaxisEscherichia coliKineticsModels, BiologicalSingle-Cell Analysis

Identifiers

PMID29111155
PMCPMC5768514

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