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Intracellular Targeted Nanocapsules Containing Nanobiotherapeutic Suppress Lung, Liver, Breast and Cervix Cancer Cell Lines by Prodrug Activation or Removal of Intracellular Tyrosine

2025· preprint· en· W4412649725 on OpenAlexaff
Chenhui Zhao, Thomas Ming Swi Chang

Bibliographic record

VenuePreprints.org · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicNanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityMcGill University Health Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIntracellularProdrugCancer researchNanocapsulesTyrosineMedicineChemistryPharmacologyOncologyBiochemistryMaterials scienceNanotechnology

Abstract

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Background: Unlike melanoma, cancer cell lines like Hepa 1-6 liver cancer line, A549 lung cancer line, Hela cervical cancer line, and MCF7 breast cancer line do not have over expressed tyrosinase to convert quercetin into its active o-quinone. Furthermore, they do not need extracellular supply of tyrosine for growth, since they can produce this intracellularly. Method: In this study we used (1) nanocapsules containing polyhemoglobin-tyrosinase (PolyHb-Tyr-nano) to activate the prodrug quercetin. (2) We also located these nanocapsules intracellularly to remove the tyrosine produced intracellularly. We studied this in 4 cancer cell lines: Hepa 1-6 liver cancer line, A549 lung cancer Hela cervical cancer line, and MCF7 breast cancer line. Results: (1) Nanocapsules containing polyhemoglobin-tyrosinase (PolyHb-Tyr-nano) activate the prodrug resulting in increased intracellular o-quinone and suppression of the cancer cell lines. (2) Intracellular located nanocapsules containing polyhemoglobin-tyrosinase (PolyHb-Tyr-nano) were able to lower intracellular tyrosine and suppressed the growth of these cancer cell lines. Furthermore, for PolyHb-Tyr-nano, the dosage needed to suppress 50% of the liver cancer cells (LD50), is 0.7808 mg/ml. In the normal liver cells, the LD50 is 84181 mg/ml. Compared to the result of quercetin activation of LD50 (2.73mg/ml in liver cancer, and 74.18mg/ml in normal hepatocytes). Conclusion: Promising result of using nanocapsules containing polyhemoglobin-tyrosinase (PolyHb-Tyr-nano) to (1) activate the prodrug quercetin and (2) locating these nanocapsules intracellularly to remove the tyrosine produced intracellularly. Method (2) appears to be effective with virtually no adverse effects compared to activation of quercetin.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

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 score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

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 integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.038
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.256 · 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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