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ARUP; ISBN: 978-0-9562121-5-3 - CMBBE 2012 - Cardiff University

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Illustration 2: The initially spherical cell just after engulfment of the three bacteria. The<br />

cell has deformed and traveled over a short distance.<br />

In order to show the influence of the cellular parameters like cell stiffness and cell<br />

motility, we show a contour plot of the minimal time needed to engulf three bacteria as<br />

a function of the aforementioned parameters in Fig. 3. It can be seen that it takes more<br />

time to neutralize the bacteria if the cell becomes stiffer. Further, an increase of the<br />

motility decreases the time needed to engulf all bacteria. It can be seen that these<br />

differences are substantial over the range of parameters considered. Furthermore, the<br />

relations are nonlinear as can be seen from Fig. 3.

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