Swimming patterns of a multi-mode bacterial swimmer in fluid shear flow
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| author | Muraveva, Valeriia Datta, Agniva Park, Jeungeun Pfeifer, Veronika Kim, Yongsam Lee, Wanho Lim, Sookkyung Beta, Carsten |
| author_facet | Muraveva, Valeriia Datta, Agniva Park, Jeungeun Pfeifer, Veronika Kim, Yongsam Lee, Wanho Lim, Sookkyung Beta, Carsten |
| contents | Bacterial swimming is well characterized in uniform liquids at rest. The natural habitat of bacterial swimmers, however, is often dominated by moving fluids and interfaces, resulting in shear flows that may strongly alter bacterial navigation strategies. Here, we study how fluid shear flow affects the swimming motility of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida, a bacterial swimmer that moves in a versatile pattern composed of three different swimming modes, where the flagella may push, pull, or wrap around the cell body (multi-mode swimmer). We introduce a computer automated cell tracking and swimming mode detection tool to show that shear induced alignment depends on the swimming mode, while motility and proximity to surfaces counteract the alignment effect. Moreover, filament wrapping becomes less efficient with increasing shear stress. Numerical simulations of realistic swimmer geometries complement our experimental results, providing more detailed mechanistic insights into movement patterns of bacterial swimmers in a shear flow. |
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| spellingShingle | Swimming patterns of a multi-mode bacterial swimmer in fluid shear flow Muraveva, Valeriia Datta, Agniva Park, Jeungeun Pfeifer, Veronika Kim, Yongsam Lee, Wanho Lim, Sookkyung Beta, Carsten Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics Bacterial swimming is well characterized in uniform liquids at rest. The natural habitat of bacterial swimmers, however, is often dominated by moving fluids and interfaces, resulting in shear flows that may strongly alter bacterial navigation strategies. Here, we study how fluid shear flow affects the swimming motility of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida, a bacterial swimmer that moves in a versatile pattern composed of three different swimming modes, where the flagella may push, pull, or wrap around the cell body (multi-mode swimmer). We introduce a computer automated cell tracking and swimming mode detection tool to show that shear induced alignment depends on the swimming mode, while motility and proximity to surfaces counteract the alignment effect. Moreover, filament wrapping becomes less efficient with increasing shear stress. Numerical simulations of realistic swimmer geometries complement our experimental results, providing more detailed mechanistic insights into movement patterns of bacterial swimmers in a shear flow. |
| title | Swimming patterns of a multi-mode bacterial swimmer in fluid shear flow |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21548 |