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most citedPersistence-driven durotaxis: Generic, directed motility in rigidity gradients

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physics.bio-ph2022★ 15 cited

Direct measurement of the aerotactic response in a bacterial suspension

J. Bouvard, C. Douarche, P. Mergaert +2

Aerotaxis is the ability of motile cells to navigate toward oxygen. A key question is the dependence of the aerotactic velocity with the local oxygen concentration c. Here we combi…

physics.bio-ph2020★ 3 cited

Are bacteria claustrophobic? The problem of micrometric spatial confinement for the culture of micro-organisms

Céline Molinaro, Violette Da Cunha, Aurore Gorlas +5

Culturing cells confined in microscale geometries has been reported in many studies this last decade, in particular following the development of microfluidic-based applications and…

physics.bio-ph2019★ 10 cited

Evolving roles and dynamics for catch and slip bonds during adhesion cluster maturation

Elizaveta A. Novikova, Cornelis Storm

Focal adhesions are the loci of cellular adhesion to the extracellular matrix. At these sites, various integrins forge connections between the intracellular cytoskeleton and the ou…

physics.bio-ph2018★ 13 cited

Slowdown of the surface diffusion during early stages of bacterial colonization

Thomas Vourc'h, Julien Léopoldès, Annick Méjean +3

We study the surface diffusion of the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC during the incipient stages of cell contact with a glass surface in the dilute regime. We ob…

physics.bio-ph2015★ 81 cited

Persistence-driven durotaxis: Generic, directed motility in rigidity gradients

Elizaveta A. Novikova, Matthew Raab, Dennis E. Discher +1

Cells move differently on substrates with different elasticities. In particular, the persistence time of their motion is higher on stiffer substrates. We show that this behavior wi…