Control of flagellar motor using a real-time local environment chemical stimulation system

Masaru Kojima, Takahiro Motoyoshi, Kenichi Ohara, Mitsuhiro Horade, Kazuto Kamiyama, Yasushi Mae, Tatsuo Arai

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Abstract

Single cell analysis has attracted much attention to reveal the localized biological information in detail. Local environmental control technique is developed to analyze the localized detail properties of single cells. In this paper, we propose the local environmental chemical stimulation system with micro dual pipettes to stimuli the local reagent concentration dynamically and automatically. Local environmental chemical stimulation by dual pipettes is applied to the rotational speed control of bacterial flagellar motor, which is a rotary molecular machine. Here, we show quick response and rotational speed control of Na-driven flagellar motor in both accelerating and relaxing directions was demonstrated by automatic switching the local spout between Na-containing and Na-free solutions with dual pipettes. It was shown that the rotational speed could be maintained by automatic controlling the spouting velocity of Na-containing and Na-free solution with multiplying the applied DC voltage. Furthermore, it was confirmed that by applying the P-control, rotational speed of flagellar motor could be controlled more stably.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4699-4704
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479936854, 9781479936854
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Sept 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2014 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 31 May 20147 Jun 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
ISSN (Print)1050-4729

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period31/05/147/06/14

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