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Record W7116733530 · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2025.11.030

Mapping cellular targets of covalent cancer drugs in the entire mammalian body

2025· article· en· W7116733530 on OpenAlexaff
Zhengyuan Pang, Verina H. Leung, Cailynn C. Wang, Ahmadreza Attarpour, Anthony Rinaldi, Hanbing Shen, Maria Dolores Moya-Garzon, Logan H. Sigua, Claire Rammel, Alexandra Selke, Christopher Glynn, Melaina Yender, Senhan Xu, Javid J. Moslehi, Peng Wu, Jonathan Z. Long, Maged Goubran, Benjamin F. Cravatt, Li Ye

Bibliographic record

VenueCell · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicClick Chemistry and Applications
Canadian institutionsSunnybrook Health Science Centre
FundersNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Cancer InstituteBio-oriented Technology Research Advancement InstitutionNational Institutes of HealthChan Zuckerberg InitiativeNational Institute of Mental HealthNational Institute on Drug AbuseHoward Hughes Medical Institute
KeywordsIn vivoClick chemistryHomogeneousMolecular imagingDrug discoveryCancerCancer cellDrugCovalent bond

Abstract

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As our understanding of biological systems reaches single-cell and high spatial resolutions, it becomes imperative that pharmacological approaches match this precision to understand drug actions. This need is particularly urgent for the targeted covalent inhibitors that are currently re-entering the stage for cancer treatments. By leveraging the unique kinetics of click reactions, we developed volumetric clearing-assisted tissue click chemistry (vCATCH) to enable deep and homogeneous click labeling across the three-dimensional (3D) mammalian body. With simple and passive incubation steps, vCATCH offers cellular-resolution drug imaging in the entire adult mouse. We combined vCATCH with hydrogel-based reinforcement of three-dimensional imaging solvent-cleared organs (HYBRiD) imaging and virtual reality to visualize and quantify in vivo targets of two clinical cancer drugs, afatinib and ibrutinib, which recapitulated their known pharmacological distribution and revealed previously unreported tissue and cell-type engagement potentially linked to off-target effects. vCATCH provides a body-wide, unbiased platform to map covalent drug engagements at unprecedented scale and precision.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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 score0.091
Threshold uncertainty score0.781

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.251
Teacher spread0.242 · 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 teacher head, 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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Citations5
Published2025
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