Principles of efficient chemotactic pursuit
In chemotaxis, cells are modulating their migration patterns in response to concentration gradients of a guiding substance. Immune cells are believed to use such chemotactic sensing for remotely detecting and homing in on pathogens. Considering that an immune cells may encounter a multitude of targets with vastly different migration properties, ranging from immobile to highly mobile, it is not clear which strategies of chemotactic pursuit are simultaneously efficient and versatile. We takle this problem theoretically and define a tunable response function that maps temporal or spatial concentration gradients to migration behavior. The seven free parameters of this response function are optimized numerically with the objective of maximizing search efficiency against a wide spectrum of target cell properties. Finally, we reverse-engineer the best-performing parameter sets to uncover the principles of efficient chemotactic pursuit under different biologically realistic boundary conditions. Remarkably, the numerical optimization rediscovers chemotactic strategies that are well-known in biological systems, such as the gradient-dependent swimming and tumbling modes of E.coli. Some of our results may also be useful for the design of chemotaxis experiments and for the development of algorithms that automatically detect and quantify goal oriented behavior in measured immune cell trajectories.
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