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Record W4408153935 · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-57257-z

PARP inhibitor radiosensitization enhances anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy through stabilizing chemokine mRNA in small cell lung cancer

2025· article· en· W4408153935 on OpenAlexafffund
Xiaozhuo Ran, Bell Xi Wu, Venkatasubramanian Vidhyasagar, Lifang Song, Xu Zhang, Reese Jalal Ladak, Mona Teng, Wail Ba-alawi, Vivek M. Philip, Housheng Hansen He, Nahum Sonenberg, Benjamin H. Lok

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Communications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicLung Cancer Research Studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill University Health CentreUniversity of TorontoPrincess Margaret Cancer CentreMcGill UniversityUniversity Health Network
FundersNational Center for Advancing Translational SciencesTerry Fox Research InstituteNational Cancer InstituteFoundation for the National Institutes of Health
KeywordsChemokineImmunotherapyLung cancerCancer researchPARP inhibitorPoly ADP ribose polymeraseMedicineCancer immunotherapyImmunologyImmune systemBiologyOncologyDNAPolymeraseGenetics

Abstract

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Immunotherapy (IO) is an effective treatment for various cancers; however, the benefits are modest for small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The poor response of SCLC to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 IO is due in part to the lack of cytotoxic T cells because of limited chemokine expression from SCLC tumors. Immunogenic radiosensitizers that enhance chemokine expression may be a promising strategy forward. Here, we show that the PARP inhibitors (PARPi), including olaparib, talazoparib and veliparib, in combination with radiotherapy (RT) enhance the immune activation and anti-tumor efficacy in SCLC cell lines, patient-derived xenograft (PDX) and syngeneic mouse models. The effect is further enhanced by continued delivery of adjuvant PARPi. The combination treatment (PARPi with RT) activates the cGAS-STING pathway and increases the mRNA levels of the T cell chemo-attractants CCL5 and CXCL10. In addition to upregulation of transcription, the combination treatment increases chemokine CXCL10 protein levels via stabilization of CXCL10 mRNA in an EIF4E2-dependent manner. The incorporation of anti-PD-L1 IO into the PARPi with RT combination therapy further improves the anti-tumor efficacy by increasing T cell infiltration and function. This study thus provides a proof of principle for the combination of PARP inhibitors, RT and anti-PD-L1 IO as a treatment strategy for SCLC. ‘Small cell lung cancers do not respond well to immune checkpoint blockade therapy, due to the poor recruitment of CD8 + T cells to the tumours. Here authors show that via combining radiotherapy, PARP inhibitors and anti-PD-L1 treatments, T cell infiltration and function could be improved via mechanisms that increase the chemo-attractants CCL5 and CXCL10.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.377
Teacher spread0.356 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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