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20122023
most citedStripe formation in bacterial systems with density-suppressed motility

197 citations

8 papers

q-bio.QM2023★ 7 cited

In silico design, in vitro construction and in vivo application of synthetic small regulatory RNAs in bacteria

Michel Brueck, Bork A. Berghoff, Daniel Schindler

Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs in bacteria capable of post-transcriptional regulation. sRNAs have recently gained attention as tools in basic and applied s…

q-bio.GN2021★ 28 cited

CRISPR SWAPnDROP -- A multifunctional system for genome editing and large-scale interspecies gene transfer

Marc Teufel, Carlo A. Klein, Maurice Mager +1

The need for diverse chromosomal modifications in biotechnology, synthetic biology and basic research requires the development of new technologies. With CRISPR SWAPnDROP, we extend…

physics.bio-ph2019★ 11 cited

Swimming of bacterium \textit{Bacillus subtilis} with multiple bundles of flagella

Javad Najafi, Florian Altegoer, Gert Bange +1

We characterize the bundle properties for three different strains of \textit{B. subtilis} bacteria with various numbers of flagella. Our study reveals that, surprisingly, the numbe…

physics.bio-ph2019★ 50 cited

Flagellar number governs bacterial spreading and transport efficiency

Javad Najafi, M. Reza Shaebani, Thomas John +3

Peritrichous bacteria synchronize and bundle their flagella to actively swim while disruption of the bundle leads to tumbling. It is still not known whether the number of flagella…

physics.bio-ph2018★ 4 cited

Front-propagation in bacterial inter-colony communication

Vera Bettenworth, Matthew McIntosh, Anke Becker +1

Many bacterial species exchange signaling molecules to coordinate population-wide responses. For this process known as quorum sensing the concentration of the respective molecules…

q-bio.CB2017★ 14 cited

Drift and behavior of E. coli cells

Gabriele Micali, Remy Colin, Victor Sourjik +1

Chemotaxis of the bacterium Escherichia coli is well understood in shallow chemical gradients, but its swimming behavior remains difficult to interpret in steep gradients. By focus…

q-bio.CB2015

A mechanical model for guided motion of mammalian cells

Patrick Bitter, Kristof Leon Beck, Peter Lenz

We introduce a generic, purely mechanical model for environment sensitive motion of mammalian cells that is applicable to chemotaxis, haptotaxis, and durotaxis as modes of motility…

cond-mat.soft2012★ 197 cited

Stripe formation in bacterial systems with density-suppressed motility

Xiongfei Fu, Lei-Han Tang, Chenli Liu +3

Engineered bacteria in which motility is reduced by local cell density generate periodic stripes of high and low density when spotted on agar plates. We study theoretically the ori…