TheN-flagella problem: elastohydrodynamic motility transition of multi-flagellated bacteria

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2018.0690MaRDI QIDQ5160657zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kenta Ishimoto, Eric Lauga

Publication date 29 October 2021

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01374

zbMATH Keywords

applied mathematicsbacteriabiophysicsflagellafluid mechanicsmicroorganismmotilitystabilityswimming

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cell biology (92C37)

Abstract: 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 analytically solve the linear stability problem and find that at most 6 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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