Mathematical modeling of mechanosensitive reversal control in .

Adjusting motility patterns according to environmental cues is important for bacterial survival. , a bacterium moving on surfaces by gliding and twitching mechanisms, modulates the reversal frequency of its front-back polarity in response to mechanical cues like substrate stiffness and cell-cell contact. In this study, we propose that 's gliding machinery senses environmental mechanical cues during force generation and modulates cell reversal accordingly.