Wen Xiaodong, Feng Jingjing, Sang Yuqian, Ge Feng, Chaté Hugues, He Yan
Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Tshinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91191, France.
Fundam Res. 2022 May 14;4(3):563-569. doi: 10.1016/j.fmre.2022.05.003. eCollection 2024 May.
Individuals tend to move freely when there is enough room but would act collectively for their survival under external stress. In the case of living cells, for instance, when a drop of low-density flagellated bacterial solution is transferred onto the agar surface, the initially disordered movement of individual bacteria would be replaced with coordinated cell swarming after a lag phase of a few hours. Here, we study how such cooperation is established while overcoming the disorder at the onset of the lag phase with single nanoparticle tracking. Upon the spreading of the droplet, the bacteria in the solution cluster and align near the almost immobilized contact line confining the drop, forming a narrow ring of cells. As individual cells move in and out of the ring continuously, certain flow patterns emerge in the inter-bacterial fluid. We reveal high-speed long-distance unidirectional flows with definite chirality along the outside of the ring, along the inside of the ring and across the ring. We speculate that these flows enable the fast and efficient transport, facilitating the communication and unification of the bacterial community.
当有足够空间时,个体倾向于自由移动,但在外部压力下会为了生存而集体行动。例如,就活细胞而言,当一滴低密度鞭毛细菌溶液转移到琼脂表面时,最初单个细菌的无序运动会在几个小时的延迟期后被协调的细胞群体运动所取代。在这里,我们通过单纳米颗粒追踪研究在延迟期开始时克服无序状态的同时,这种合作是如何建立的。液滴扩散时,溶液中的细菌聚集并在限制液滴的几乎固定的接触线附近排列,形成一个狭窄的细胞环。随着单个细胞不断进出这个环,细菌间的流体中会出现某些流动模式。我们揭示了沿着环的外侧、内侧以及穿过环具有确定手性的高速长距离单向流动。我们推测这些流动能够实现快速高效的运输,促进细菌群落的交流与统一。
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