Trade-offs in concentration sensing in dynamic environments
Published in Biophysical Journal, 2024
We model a eukaryotic cell sensing a chemical secreted from bacteria and develop analytical calculations and stochastic simulations of sensing in this environment. We find that cells can have a huge variety of optimal sensing strategies ranging from not time averaging at all to averaging over an arbitrarily long time or having a finite optimal averaging time.
Recommended citation: Kashyap A, Wang W, Camley BA. Trade-offs in concentration sensing in dynamic environments. Biophysical Journal, 123(10). May 2024. 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.03.025 https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(24)00205-4