Biochemical noise enables a single optogenetic input to control identical cells to track asymmetric and asynchronous reference signals
May, M. P.; Munsky, B.
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Optogenetics is a powerful technology to control synthetic gene circuits using external and computer-programmable light inputs. Like all biological processes, these systems are subject to intrinsic noise that arises from the stochastic process of gene regulation at the single-cell level. Many engineers have sought to mitigate this noise by developing more complex embedded bio-circuits, but recent work has shown that noise-exploiting stochastic controllers could enable new control strategies that take advantage of noise, rather than working against it. These noise-exploiting controllers were initially proposed to solve a single-input-multi-output stationary control problem, where symmetry was broken in a means reminiscent to the concept of Maxwells Demon. In this paper, we extend those results and show through computation that transient, asymmetric, and asynchronous stochastic control of the single-input-multi-output (SIMO) control problem is posible to achieve by cycling through different controllers in time. We show that such a method is able control two cells to two different periodic fates with different frequencies and different phases despite the use of only one control input.
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