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Main Authors: Kaihnsa, Nidhi, Nguyen, Tung, Shiu, Anne
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04186
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author Kaihnsa, Nidhi
Nguyen, Tung
Shiu, Anne
author_facet Kaihnsa, Nidhi
Nguyen, Tung
Shiu, Anne
contents 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 concentration is the same at all steady states. Both multistationarity and ACR are significant in biological settings, but only recently has attention focused on the possibility for these properties to coexist. Our main result states that such coexistence in at-most-bimolecular networks (which encompass most networks arising in biology) requires at least $3$ species, $5$ complexes, and $3$ reactions. We prove additional bounds on the number of reactions for general networks based on the number of linear conservation laws. Finally, we prove that, outside of a few exceptional cases, ACR is equivalent to non-multistationarity for bimolecular networks that are small (more precisely, one-dimensional or up to two species). Our proofs involve analyses of systems of sparse polynomials, and we also use classical results from chemical reaction network theory.
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spellingShingle Absolute Concentration Robustness and Multistationarity in Reaction Networks: Conditions for Coexistence
Kaihnsa, Nidhi
Nguyen, Tung
Shiu, Anne
Dynamical Systems
Algebraic Geometry
Molecular Networks
92E20, 37N25, 26C10, 34A34, 34C08
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 concentration is the same at all steady states. Both multistationarity and ACR are significant in biological settings, but only recently has attention focused on the possibility for these properties to coexist. Our main result states that such coexistence in at-most-bimolecular networks (which encompass most networks arising in biology) requires at least $3$ species, $5$ complexes, and $3$ reactions. We prove additional bounds on the number of reactions for general networks based on the number of linear conservation laws. Finally, we prove that, outside of a few exceptional cases, ACR is equivalent to non-multistationarity for bimolecular networks that are small (more precisely, one-dimensional or up to two species). Our proofs involve analyses of systems of sparse polynomials, and we also use classical results from chemical reaction network theory.
title Absolute Concentration Robustness and Multistationarity in Reaction Networks: Conditions for Coexistence
topic Dynamical Systems
Algebraic Geometry
Molecular Networks
92E20, 37N25, 26C10, 34A34, 34C08
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04186