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  • Microbiology
  • Systems Biology
  • Biophysics

Background:

  • Microbial colony development is shaped by complex interactions between mechanical, biochemical, and environmental factors.
  • Gene regulatory networks play a crucial role in governing spatial patterns during colony formation.
  • Understanding pattern formation requires innovative approaches to analyze complex biological systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the multistability of bacterial colony patterns.
  • To elucidate the mechanisms driving the formation of ring-like and sector-like patterns.
  • To explore the role of gene regulatory networks and microenvironmental cues in pattern determinism and noise-induced symmetry breaking.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized quantitative imaging techniques to analyze colony morphology.
  • Employed spatially resolved transcriptome analysis to understand gene expression patterns.
  • Developed a synthetic bistable switch to control pattern formation.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated multistability in bacterial colony patterns, with distinct ring-like and sector-like formations observed.
  • Identified bifurcation events in gene regulatory networks as key drivers of deterministic ring pattern formation from single cells.
  • Observed noise-induced symmetry breaking during range expansion, amplified by the founder effect and influenced by initial cell conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Bacterial colony pattern formation exhibits multistability, controlled by a synthetic bistable switch.
  • Both deterministic (gene networks, environment) and stochastic (founder effect, initial conditions) processes contribute to emergent self-organized behavior.
  • Range expansion allows individual cells to generate complex patterns even in uniform environments.