Self-organized periodicity of protein clusters in growing bacteria

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dc.creatorWang, Hui
dc.creatorWingreen, Ned S.
dc.creatorMukhopadhyay, Ranjan
dc.date2008-08-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:05:08Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:05:08Z
dc.descriptionChemotaxis receptors in E. coli form clusters at the cell poles and also laterally along the cell body, and this clustering plays an important role in signal transduction. Recently, experiments using flourrescence imaging have shown that, during cell growth, lateral clusters form at positions approximately periodically spaced along the cell body. In this paper, we demonstrate within a lattice model that such spatial organization could arise spontaneously from a stochastic nucleation mechanism. The same mechanism may explain the recent observation of periodic aggregates of misfolded proteins in E. coli.
dc.description5 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0888
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0888
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. Lett. 101, 218101 (2008)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.218101
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/208297
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectSoft Condensed Matter
dc.subjectCell Behavior
dc.subjectSubcellular Processes
dc.titleSelf-organized periodicity of protein clusters in growing bacteria
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