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Record W4414838703 · doi:10.1002/smsc.202500290

Fine‐Tuning Photochemical Immunogenic Cell Death by a Panel of Verteporfin‐Lipid Nanoparticles: A Data‐Driven Approach

2025· article· en· W4414838703 on OpenAlex
Nimit Shah, Maxwell Quaye, Siddharth Reddy Soma, Meghana Sree Vadlamudi, Doha Mahmoud, Ashritha Malkoochi, Taksheel Rao Aileni, Chanda Bhandari, Kunal Karambelkar, Tayyaba Hasan, Mladen Korbelik, Baowei Fei, Xinxin Song, Girgis Obaid

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Bibliographic record

VenueSmall Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
Canadian institutionsBC Cancer Agency
FundersNational Institute of Biomedical Imaging and BioengineeringNational Cancer InstituteNational Institutes of HealthCancer Prevention and Research Institute of TexasAmerican Cancer SocietyAnna Fuller Fund
KeywordsPhototoxicityReactive oxygen speciesProgrammed cell deathEndoplasmic reticulumMitochondrionApoptosisImmune system

Abstract

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Immunogenic cell death (ICD) is an immunostimulatory process that can be induced by light-activated photosensitizers, but its mechanisms remain unclear, especially with lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulations. In this study, a multivariate, data-driven analysis was conducted using a panel of five verteporfin(V)-LNPs to identify the attributes that lead to the greatest photochemically-induced exposure of ICD markers in pancreatic cancer cells. These attributes include varying production of Type I (radicals) or Type II (singlet oxygen) reactive oxygen species (ROS) upon 690 nm activation, localization in different organelles, variable cellular uptake efficiencies, and different phototoxicity levels. Using principal component analysis, we identified that, unexpectedly, Type I ROS is most strongly associated with ICD marker exposure, which leads to dendritic cell activation ex vivo, while Type II ROS shows the weakest association. Furthermore, V-LNP localization in the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria is most strongly associated with exposure of ICD markers, while lysosomal localization shows the weakest association. ICD marker exposure is proportional to the degree of phototoxicity and cellular uptake efficiency for all V-LNPs. These findings provide critical insights into the multiparametric mechanism underlying photochemical ICD induced by V-LNPs and can inform the rational design of photochemical LNP constructs for augmenting anticancer immune responses.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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 score0.200
Threshold uncertainty score0.672

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.202 · 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