Optimal sensing and control of run-and-tumble chemotaxis

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Main Authors: Nakamura, Kento, Kobayashi, Tetsuya J.
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author Nakamura, Kento
Kobayashi, Tetsuya J.
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Kobayashi, Tetsuya J.
contents Run-and-tumble chemotaxis is one of the representative search strategies of an odor source via sensing its spatial gradient. The optimal ways of sensing and control in the run-and-tumble chemotaxis have been analyzed theoretically to elucidate the efficiency of strategies implemented in organisms. However, because of theoretical difficulties, most of attempts have been limited only to either linear or deterministic analysis even though real biological chemotactic systems involve considerable stochasticity and nonlinearity in their sensory processes and controlled responses. In this paper, by combining the theories of optimal filtering and Kullback-Leibler control of partially observed Markov decision process (POMDP), we derive the optimal and fully nonlinear strategy for controlling run-and-tumble motion depending on noisy sensing of ligand gradient. The derived optimal strategy consists of the optimal filtering dynamics to estimate the run-direction from noisy sensory input and the control function to regulate the motor output. We further show that this optimal strategy can be associated naturally with a standard biochemical model and experimental data of the Escherichia coli's chemotaxis. These results demonstrate that our theoretical framework can work as a basis for analyzing the efficiency and optimality of run-and-tumble chemotaxis.
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Nakamura, Kento
Kobayashi, Tetsuya J.
Cell Behavior
Run-and-tumble chemotaxis is one of the representative search strategies of an odor source via sensing its spatial gradient. The optimal ways of sensing and control in the run-and-tumble chemotaxis have been analyzed theoretically to elucidate the efficiency of strategies implemented in organisms. However, because of theoretical difficulties, most of attempts have been limited only to either linear or deterministic analysis even though real biological chemotactic systems involve considerable stochasticity and nonlinearity in their sensory processes and controlled responses. In this paper, by combining the theories of optimal filtering and Kullback-Leibler control of partially observed Markov decision process (POMDP), we derive the optimal and fully nonlinear strategy for controlling run-and-tumble motion depending on noisy sensing of ligand gradient. The derived optimal strategy consists of the optimal filtering dynamics to estimate the run-direction from noisy sensory input and the control function to regulate the motor output. We further show that this optimal strategy can be associated naturally with a standard biochemical model and experimental data of the Escherichia coli's chemotaxis. These results demonstrate that our theoretical framework can work as a basis for analyzing the efficiency and optimality of run-and-tumble chemotaxis.
title Optimal sensing and control of run-and-tumble chemotaxis
topic Cell Behavior
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12405