PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sarangam Majumdar
AU  - Sisir Roy
TI  - The role of coherence in bacterial communication
AID  - 10.1101/119503
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 119503
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/22/119503.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/22/119503.full
AB  - Bacteria within biofilms can coordinate their behavior through distinct from of communication mechanism1. The well-established cell - to - cell signaling process in bacteria is known as quorum sensing through chemical signaling molecules2-5. Recently, another cell- to - cell communication process based on ion channel mediated electrical signaling6 has also been observed. In this article, we propose a novel approach to explain the role of coherence and phase synchronization in the cell – to – cell bacterial communication. The observable long – range coherent electrical signaling is species independent and it is caused by membrane – potential - dependent modulation of tumbling frequency7-9. Moreover, noise can play a constructive role in enhancing the synchronization of chaotic bacterial communication systems and noise associated with the opening and closing the gate of ion channel induce small kinetic viscosity that make a wave-like pattern in concentration profile of quorum sensing.