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DSCG liquid crystal’s viscosity: Insight into the motility of
bacteria in an anisotropic liquid environment
By Ismaël Duchesne,Simon Rainville and Tigran Galstian
In this talk•Anisotropic medium: DSCG liquid crystal
•Isotropic and anisotropic motility of flagellar bacteria (E. coli)
•Speed and orientation of bacteria in DSCG solution
•Viscosity of DSCG solution
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• Anisotropic liquid environment:Physical properties depend on the direction (as
birefringence)
• Flagellar bacteria:Bacteria that may swims in aqueous medium by
rotating theirs flagella
• Why anisotropic motility:Many biological tissues and media may be
anisotropic (biofilms, enriched chitin soils...)Difficult task: only few studies
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DSCG liquid crystal’s viscosity: Insight into the motility of bacteria in an anisotropic
liquid environment
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Anisotropic medium: nematic liquid crystal (LC)
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Temperature
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Lyotropic LC: cromolyn sodium salt (DSCG)
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Yu. A. Nastishin and al., Physical Review E, November 2004.
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Isotropic motility of bacteria: runs and tumbles
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source: Wikipedia
Random walk
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Anisotropic motility of flagellar bacteria (E. coli)
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Experiments: montages
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Chamber and light-guided dark-field microscopy
Microscope
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Results: bacterial motility
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• Purely isotropic phase: as if there were no DSCG • Pretransitional phase: sticky effect• Anisotropic phase: decrease of speed and runs in
the direction of the director
Speed Orientation variation
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Results: viscosity measurements(from diffusion of 0,2-2µm microspheres)
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• Purely isotropic phase: little viscosity increase • Pretransitional phase: exponential viscosity
increase• Anisotropic phase: anisotropic viscosity
Viscosity Axial ratio
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Can we explain the anisotropic motility with the anisotropic
viscosity?
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Isotropic Anisotropic
Beads diffusion
Swimmingbacteria
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Conclusion
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• Bacteria behave very differently in anisotropic media
• Viscosity doesn't explain everything (active motility important)
• “New” pretransitional phase• Viscosity increase (aggregation – threshold) • Sticky effect
• New possibilities for controlling motion of microorganisms
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Acknowledgements
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• Dr Simon Rainville• phD students
• Guillaume Paradis• Ismael Duchesne
• Dr Tigran Galstian• phD students
• Karen Allahverdyan
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Viscosity dependency to the beads size
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Propulsive force of bacteria
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