Self-organized Vortex State in Two-dimensional Dictyostelium Dynamics

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1998-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9811001v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

submitted to PRL; revised version dated 3/8/99

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1247

We present results of experiments on the dynamics of Dictyostelium discoideum in a novel set-up which constraints cell motion to a plane. After aggregation, the amoebae collect into round ''pancake" structures in which the cells rotate around the center of the pancake. This vortex state persists for many hours and we have explicitly verified that the motion is not due to rotating waves of cAMP. To provide an alternative mechanism for the self-organization of the Dictyostelium cells, we have developed a new model of the dynamics of self-propelled deformable objects. In this model, we show that cohesive energy between the cells, together with a coupling between the self-generated propulsive force and the cell's configuration produces a self-organized vortex state. The angular velocity profiles of the experiment and of the model are qualitatively similar. The mechanism for self-organization reported here can possibly explain similar vortex states in other biological systems.

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