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ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2018.0690
关键词
bacteria; flagella; swimming; microorganism; motility; stability
资金
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [682754]
- MEXT Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER), JSPS KAKENHI [JP18K13456]
- JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship [29-0146]
Peritrichous bacteria such as Escherichia coli swim in viscous fluids by forming a helical bundle of flagellar filaments. The filaments are spatially distributed around the cell body to which they are connected via a flexible hook. To understand how the swimming direction of the cell is determined, we theoretically investigate the elastohydrodynamic motility problem of a multi-flagellated bacterium. Specifically, we consider a spherical cell body with a number N of flagella which are initially symmetrically arranged in a plane in order to provide an equilibrium state. We solve the linear stability problem analytically and find that at most six modes can be unstable and that these correspond to the degrees of freedom for the rigid-body motion of the cell body. Although there exists a rotation-dominated mode that generates negligible locomotion, we show that for the typical morphological parameters of bacteria the most unstable mode results in linear swimming in one direction accompanied by rotation around the same axis, as observed experimentally.
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