A mathematical method for reducing biochemical kinetics is presented.
The method is applied to reduce the FAS-induced apoptotic intracellular-signaling subsystem (of 28 dimensions).
Nine linear integrals (conserved relations) of the original model are reported and used to reduce the system dimension without any loss of the accuracy.
Four additional relations allow us to further reduce the system dimension. Three of them represent a combination of fast synchronizing reactions regarded as relatively fast and relaxed and one presents an additional non-linear system integral.
The reduced model together with numerical simulations results of the comparison between detailed and reduced models are reported.
The numerical results show the high accuracy of the reduced model.