期刊
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
卷 11, 期 97, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0400
关键词
bacterial microcolony; bacterial biofilm; mechanics; cell growth
资金
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- Leverhulme Trust
- EPSRC
- International Human Frontier Science Programme Organization [RGY0069/2009-C, RGY0081/2012]
- EPSRC [EP/J007404]
- EPSRC [EP/J007404/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J007404/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Mechanical forces are obviously important in the assembly of three-dimensional multicellular structures, but their detailed role is often unclear. We have used growing microcolonies of the bacterium Escherichia coli to investigate the role of mechanical forces in the transition from two-dimensional growth (on the interface between a hard surface and a soft agarose pad) to three-dimensional growth (invasion of the agarose). We measure the position within the colony where the invasion transition happens, the cell density within the colony and the colony size at the transition as functions of the concentration of the agarose. We use a phenomenological theory, combined with individual-based computer simulations, to show how mechanical forces acting between the bacterial cells, and between the bacteria and the surrounding matrix, lead to the complex phenomena observed in our experiments-in particular the observation that agarose concentration non-trivially affects the colony size at transition. Matching these approaches leads to a prediction for how the friction between the bacteria and the agarose should vary with agarose concentration. Our experimental conditions mimic numerous clinical and environmental scenarios in which bacteria invade soft matrices, as well as shedding more general light on the transition between two-and three-dimensional growth in multicellular assemblies.
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