The role of intracellular signaling in the stripe formation in engineered Escherichia coli populations
Fig 1
Sequential stripe formation in an engineered E. coli colony.
(A) Concentric stripe patterns formed in experiments. Scale bar: 1 cm. (B) Run-and-tumble movement. (C)The intracellular chemotaxis pathway of E. coli. MCP is the transmembrane receptors. The letters in the figure represents the corresponding proteins involved in chemotaxis, e.g., A represents CheA. (D) The quorum-sensing module. (A), (D) Reproduced from Fig. 1 in Liu et al, Science, Vol 334, 238–241, 2011 [12].