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A reaction system exhibits "absolute concentration robustness" (ACR) in some species if the positive steady-state value of that species does not depend on initial conditions. Mathematically, this means that the positive part of the variety…
Many reaction networks arising in applications are multistationary, that is, they have the capacity for more than one steady state; while some networks exhibit absolute concentration robustness (ACR), which means that some species…
Networks with absolute concentration robustness (ACR) have the property that a translation of a coordinate hyperplane either contains all steady states (static ACR) or attracts all trajectories (dynamic ACR). The implication for the…
Biochemical systems that express certain chemical species of interest at the same level at any positive equilibrium are called "absolute concentration robust" (ACR). These species behave in a stable, predictable way, in the sense that their…
In this work, we design a type of controller that consists of adding a specific set of reactions to an existing mass-action chemical reaction network in order to control a target species. This set of reactions is effective for both…
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Absolute concentration robustness (ACR) is a condition wherein a species in a chemical kinetic system possesses the same value for any positive steady state the network may admit regardless of initial conditions. Thus far, results on ACR…
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Living systems maintain stable internal states despite environmental fluctuations. Absolute concentration robustness (ACR) is a striking homeostatic phenomenon in which the steady-state concentration of a species remains invariant despite…
Motivated by the question of how biological systems maintain homeostasis in changing environments, Shinar and Feinberg introduced in 2010 the concept of absolute concentration robustness (ACR). A biochemical system exhibits ACR in some…
For reaction networks arising in systems biology, the capacity for two or more steady states, that is, multistationarity, is an important property that underlies biochemical switches. Another property receiving much attention recently is…
Absolute Concentration Robustness (ACR) was introduced by Shinar and Feinberg as robustness of equilibrium species concentration in a mass action dynamical system. Their aim was to devise a mathematical condition that will ensure robustness…
Robustness of biochemical systems has become one of the central questions in Systems Biology, although it is notoriously difficult to formally capture its multifaceted nature. Maintenance of normal system function depends not only on the…
Robustness against the presence of environmental disruptions can be observed in many systems of chemical reaction network. However, identifying the underlying components of a system that give rise to robustness is often elusive. The…
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Absolute concentration robustness (ACR) means the concentration of certain species stays the same in all the steady states. In this work, we study how conservation laws might effect non-vacuous ACR in reaction networks. The goal is to show…
This paper develops the concept of decomposition for chemical reaction networks, based on which a network decomposition technique is proposed to capture the stability of large-scale networks characterized by a high number of species, high…
Recent research in both the experimental and mathematical communities has focused on biochemical interaction systems that satisfy an "absolute concentration robustness" (ACR) property. The ACR property was first discovered experimentally…
A chemical reaction network (CRN) is composed of reactions that can be seen as interactions among entities called species, which exist within the system. Endowed with kinetics, CRN has a corresponding set of ordinary differential equations…
There have been recent theoretic results that provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a species displaying absolute concentration robustness (ACR) in a power law kinetic (PLK) system. One such result involves the detection of ACR…