Table 1 Measurements of four different cellular genotypes and numerical simulations

From: Evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological matter

 

Continuum model

Experimental data

Percolation universality class

Bacterial cells

Eukaryotic cells

WT

ΔpilH

MDCK

MCF-7

Scale invariance

Fractal dimension

D

1.75 ± 0.01

1.72 ± 0.02

1.72 ± 0.04

1.74 ± 0.02

1.74 ± 0.03

7/4 = 1.75

Conformal invariance

Winding angle

α

0.853 ± 0.005

0.86 ± 0.01

0.87 ± 0.01

0.85 ± 0.01

0.87 ± 0.02

6/7 ≈ 0.857

SLE

Left-passage probability

κ

6.02 ± 0.02

5.97 ± 0.05

5.96 ± 0.05

5.95 ± 0.03

5.95 ± 0.06

6

Driving function

κ

5.96 ± 0.05

6.03 ± 0.06

5.96 ± 0.06

5.98 ± 0.04

5.93 ± 0.04

6

  1. The values are calculated from the velocity fields obtained from PTV (Methods) and the errors represent the standard deviation about the mean.