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    • Biochemistry
    • Systems Biology
    • Control Theory

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    • Biochemical reaction networks are essential for cellular signal processing.
    • Integral feedback control allows systems to maintain a setpoint despite changing inputs.
    • Understanding the computational capabilities of these networks is crucial for synthetic biology and systems engineering.

    Approach:

    • Investigated signal integration and integral feedback control in simple biochemical reaction networks.
    • Analyzed the overlap and shared characteristics between networks performing these two functions.
    • Identified the role of neutral stability in chemical species for achieving integration and feedback control.

    Key Points:

    • Some networks can perform signal integration, others integral feedback control, and some both, with imperfect overlap.
    • Networks capable of integration or feedback control share key features, notably a neutrally stable chemical species.
    • Neutral stability, characterized by an underdetermined steady-state, can arise from zeroth-order decay, antithetic control, or covalent cycles.

    Conclusions:

    • Biochemical networks exhibit diverse capabilities in signal processing, including integration and integral feedback control.
    • Neutral stability is a critical feature enabling these computational functions in biological systems.
    • The mathematical underdetermination of rate equations at steady-state underlies neutral stability and functional capabilities.