Abstract
Abstract
We study a one-dimensional three-state run-and-tumble model motivated by the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus which displays a cell cycle between two non-proliferating mobile phases and a proliferating sedentary phase. Our model implements kinetic transitions between the two mobile and one sedentary states described in terms of their number densities, where mobility is allowed with different running speeds in forward and backward direction. We start by analyzing the stationary states of the system and compute the mean and squared-displacements for the distribution of all cells, as well as for the number density of settled cells. The latter displays a surprising super-ballistic scaling $$\sim t^3$$
∼
t
3
at early times. Including repulsive and attractive interactions between the mobile cell populations and the settled cells, we explore the stability of the system and employ numerical methods to study structure formation in the fully nonlinear system. We find traveling waves of bacteria, whose occurrence is quantified in a non-equilibrium state diagram.
Grapical abstract
Funder
HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Surfaces and Interfaces,General Materials Science,General Chemistry,Biophysics,Biotechnology
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