Alternative views on gradient sensing Postma and van hastert. 'a diffusion-translocation model for gradient sensing by chemotactic cells Biophys.J.81,1314(2001) Levchenko and Iglesias. Models of eukaryotic gradient sensing: applications to chemotaxis of amoeba and neutrophils
Wrapping up E coli chemotaxis (L7& L8) Main points of last 2 lectures L7: Biological background what is the function of the individual molecules L8: modeling of all possible chemotactic reactions why doesn't this model reproduce experimentally observed perfect adaptation
L14: 14 Lectures past and 1 1 to go Part 'The cell as a well-stirred bioreactor topICs Lambda phage lysis-lysogeny switch Synthetic genetic switch Switches as memory storage Chemotaxis: perfect adaptation or not? Synthetic genetic oscillators