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Bacterial chemotaxis relies on the clockwise-to-counterclockwise switching (and the reverse CCW-to-CW switching) of the flagellar
motor’s rotational direction. Yet, despite its central role, the switch mechanism remains poorly understood. Here we study
the switch statistics of the flagellar motor using computer simulations that combine first-passage time ideas and the property
of dynamic binding of CheY-P to FliM. The simulated clockwise bias and switching frequency as a function of CheY-P concentration
agree with the experimental results for E. coli. Moreover, the simulation results show a robust peak, which is present in some experimental reports, in the distribution of
the time intervals of both clockwise and counterclockwise rotation. 相似文献
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Two random-walk related problems which have been studied independently in the past, the expected maximum of a random walker
in one dimension and the flux to a spherical trap of particles undergoing discrete jumps in three dimensions, are shown to
be closely related to each other and are studied using a unified approach as a solution to a Wiener-Hopf problem. For the
flux problem, this work shows that a constant c = 0.29795219 which appeared in the context of the boundary extrapolation length, and was previously found only numerically,
can be derived analytically. The same constant enters in higher-order corrections to the expected-maximum asymptotics. As
a byproduct, we also prove a new universal result in the context of the flux problem which is an analogue of the Sparre Andersen
theorem proved in the context of the random walker's maximum. 相似文献