Dependence of bacterial chemotaxis on gradient shape and adaptation rate

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Vladimirov, Nikita ^a   Løvdok, Linda ^a   Lebiedz, Dirk ^b   Sourjik, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOSENSOR; ENZYMES; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYSACCHARIDES; POROUS MATERIALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BACTERIAL CHEMOTAXIS; CELL POPULATIONS; CELLULAR BEHAVIORS; CHEMOTAXI; DETAILED MODELS; HYBRID MODEL; INTRACELLULAR PROCESS; MULTIPLE SCALE; OPERATING RANGES; SIGNAL-PROCESSING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AGAR; CHEA KINASE; CHEB KINASE; CHEY PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; HYBRID; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; RAPIDCELL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 58149156397     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000242     Document Type: Article

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