Derivation of the bacterial run-and-tumble kinetic equation from a model with biochemical pathway

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DOI10.1007/S00285-016-0985-5zbMATH Open1358.35207arXiv1503.03979OpenAlexW1790951631WikidataQ50688696 ScholiaQ50688696MaRDI QIDQ728542FDOQ728542


Authors: Min Tang, Nicolas Vauchelet, Ben{ôı}t Perthame Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 20 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Kinetic-transport equations are, by now, standard models to describe the dynamics of populations of bacteria moving by run-and-tumble. Experimental observations show that bacteria increase their run duration when encountering an increasing gradient of chemotactic molecules. This led to a first class of models which heuristically include tumbling frequencies depending on the path-wise gradient of chemotactic signal. More recently, the biochemical pathways regulating the flagellar motors were uncovered. This knowledge gave rise to a second class of kinetic-transport equations, that takes into account an intra-cellular molecular content and which relates the tumbling frequency to this information. It turns out that the tumbling frequency depends on the chemotactic signal, and not on its gradient. For these two classes of models, macroscopic equations of Keller-Segel type, have been derived using diffusion or hyperbolic rescaling. We complete this program by showing how the first class of equations can be derived from the second class with molecular content after appropriate rescaling. The main difficulty is to explain why the path-wise gradient of chemotactic signal can arise in this asymptotic process. Randomness of receptor methylation events can be included, and our approach can be used to compute the tumbling frequency in presence of such a noise.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03979




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