Supplementary material from "Realizing ‘integral control’ in living cells: how to overcome leaky integration due to dilution?"
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A major problem in the design of synthetic genetic circuits is robustness to perturbations and uncertainty. Because of this, there have been significant efforts in recent years in finding approaches to implement integral control in genetic circuits. Integral controllers have the unique ability to make the output of a process adapt perfectly to disturbances. However, implementing an integral controller is challenging in living cells. This is because a key aspect of any integral controller is a ‘memory’ element that stores the accumulation (integral) of the error between the output and its desired set-point. The ability to realize such a memory element in living cells is fundamentally challenged by the fact that all biomolecules dilute as cells grow, resulting in a ‘leaky’ memory that gradually fades away. As a consequence, the adaptation property is lost. Here, we propose a general principle for designing integral controllers such that the performance is practically unaffected by dilution. In particular, we mathematically prove that if the reactions implementing the integral controller are all much faster than dilution, then the adaptation error due to integration leakiness becomes negligible. We exemplify this design principle with two synthetic genetic circuits aimed at reaching adaptation of gene expression to fluctuations in cellular resources. Our results provide concrete guidance on the biomolecular processes that are most appropriate for implementing integral controllers in living cells.
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Qian, Yili; Vecchio, Domitilla Del (2018). Supplementary material from "Realizing ‘integral control’ in living cells: how to overcome leaky integration due to dilution?". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3986805.v3
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Yili Qian
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Domitilla Del Vecchio