... differs from the QSSA manifoldbecause of the presence of the first term in the right-hand side of Eqn (17). Instead, the ZDP conditions of higher orders are natural extensions of the QSSA: theyalso ... mathemati-cally the fact that the total concentration of each of the four proteins is conserved. In particular, they are:Table 1. The state variables of the original (O) and the final (F) model.Compound ... Amsterdam, The Netherlands2 Modelling, Analysis and Simulation, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands3 Korteweg–de Vries Instituut, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands4...