How flagellated bacteria wobble
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| author | Hu, Jinglei Gui, Chen Mao, Mingxin Feng, Pu Liu, Yurui Gong, Xiangjun Gompper, Gerhard |
| author_facet | Hu, Jinglei Gui, Chen Mao, Mingxin Feng, Pu Liu, Yurui Gong, Xiangjun Gompper, Gerhard |
| contents | A flagellated bacterium navigates fluid environments by rotating its helical flagellar bundle. The wobbling of the bacterial body significantly influences its swimming behavior. To quantify the three underlying motions--precession, nutation, and spin, we extract the Euler angles from trajectories generated by mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations, which is experimentally unattainable. In contrast to the common assumption, the cell body does not undergo complete cycles of spin, a general result for multiflagellated bacteria. Our simulations produce apparent wobbling periods that closely match the results of {\it E. coli} obtained from experiments and reveal the presence of two kinds of precession modes, consistent with theoretical analysis. Small-amplitude yet periodic nutation is also observed in the simulations. |
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| spellingShingle | How flagellated bacteria wobble Hu, Jinglei Gui, Chen Mao, Mingxin Feng, Pu Liu, Yurui Gong, Xiangjun Gompper, Gerhard Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics A flagellated bacterium navigates fluid environments by rotating its helical flagellar bundle. The wobbling of the bacterial body significantly influences its swimming behavior. To quantify the three underlying motions--precession, nutation, and spin, we extract the Euler angles from trajectories generated by mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations, which is experimentally unattainable. In contrast to the common assumption, the cell body does not undergo complete cycles of spin, a general result for multiflagellated bacteria. Our simulations produce apparent wobbling periods that closely match the results of {\it E. coli} obtained from experiments and reveal the presence of two kinds of precession modes, consistent with theoretical analysis. Small-amplitude yet periodic nutation is also observed in the simulations. |
| title | How flagellated bacteria wobble |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13350 |