Shortcuts in stochastic systems and control of biophysical processes

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Auteurs principaux: Ilker, Efe, Güngör, Özenç, Kuznets-Speck, Benjamin, Chiel, Joshua, Deffner, Sebastian, Hinczewski, Michael
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author Ilker, Efe
Güngör, Özenç
Kuznets-Speck, Benjamin
Chiel, Joshua
Deffner, Sebastian
Hinczewski, Michael
author_facet Ilker, Efe
Güngör, Özenç
Kuznets-Speck, Benjamin
Chiel, Joshua
Deffner, Sebastian
Hinczewski, Michael
contents The biochemical reaction networks that regulate living systems are all stochastic to varying degrees. The resulting randomness affects biological outcomes at multiple scales, from the functional states of single proteins in a cell to the evolutionary trajectory of whole populations. Controlling how the distribution of these outcomes changes over time -- via external interventions like time-varying concentrations of chemical species -- is a complex challenge. In this work, we show how counterdiabatic (CD) driving, first developed to control quantum systems, provides a versatile tool for steering biological processes. We develop a practical graph-theoretic framework for CD driving in discrete-state continuous-time Markov networks. Though CD driving is limited to target trajectories that are instantaneous stationary states, we show how to generalize the approach to allow for non-stationary targets and local control -- where only a subset of system states are targeted. The latter is particularly useful for biological implementations where there may be only a small number of available external control knobs, insufficient for global control. We derive simple graphical criteria for when local versus global control is possible. Finally, we illustrate the formalism with global control of a genetic regulatory switch and local control in chaperone-assisted protein folding. The derived control protocols in the chaperone system closely resemble natural control strategies seen in experimental measurements of heat shock response in yeast and E. coli.
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spellingShingle Shortcuts in stochastic systems and control of biophysical processes
Ilker, Efe
Güngör, Özenç
Kuznets-Speck, Benjamin
Chiel, Joshua
Deffner, Sebastian
Hinczewski, Michael
Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
Molecular Networks
The biochemical reaction networks that regulate living systems are all stochastic to varying degrees. The resulting randomness affects biological outcomes at multiple scales, from the functional states of single proteins in a cell to the evolutionary trajectory of whole populations. Controlling how the distribution of these outcomes changes over time -- via external interventions like time-varying concentrations of chemical species -- is a complex challenge. In this work, we show how counterdiabatic (CD) driving, first developed to control quantum systems, provides a versatile tool for steering biological processes. We develop a practical graph-theoretic framework for CD driving in discrete-state continuous-time Markov networks. Though CD driving is limited to target trajectories that are instantaneous stationary states, we show how to generalize the approach to allow for non-stationary targets and local control -- where only a subset of system states are targeted. The latter is particularly useful for biological implementations where there may be only a small number of available external control knobs, insufficient for global control. We derive simple graphical criteria for when local versus global control is possible. Finally, we illustrate the formalism with global control of a genetic regulatory switch and local control in chaperone-assisted protein folding. The derived control protocols in the chaperone system closely resemble natural control strategies seen in experimental measurements of heat shock response in yeast and E. coli.
title Shortcuts in stochastic systems and control of biophysical processes
topic Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
Molecular Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07130