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title: "ADC platform QSP for HER2 (Scheuher 2023)"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
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  %\VignetteIndexEntry{ADC platform QSP for HER2 (Scheuher 2023)}
  %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
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```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", fig.width = 7, fig.height = 4)
library(nlmixr2lib)
library(rxode2)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)
```

# Model and source

* Citation: Scheuher B, Ghusinga KR, McGirr K, Nowak M, Panday S, Apgar J, Subramanian K, Betts A. Towards a platform quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) model for preclinical to clinical translation of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). *J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn.* 2023;51(1):5-30.
* Article: <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10928-023-09884-6>
* Supplement 1 (parameters + reactions + ODEs): 10928_2023_9884_MOESM1_ESM.docx (open access)
* Supplement 2 (figure legends): 10928_2023_9884_MOESM2_ESM.docx (open access)

This paper presents a multi-scale QSP platform for anti-HER2 antibody-drug conjugates
(ADCs), calibrated and validated with trastuzumab-DM1 (T-DM1, Kadcyla) and
trastuzumab-deruxtecan (T-DXd, Enhertu). The platform is presented at three nested
scales - in vitro cellular disposition, in vivo mouse xenograft PK+TGI, and human
clinical PK+TGI+PFS - which the extraction packages as three separate model files
sharing this vignette (per operator direction and the
`replicate-author-structure` policy):

* `Scheuher_2023_ADC_invitro_qsp`: 13-state cellular ADC processing model
  (Tables S1a, S2a, S3a-b).
* `Scheuher_2023_ADC_mouse_qsp`: mouse plasma PK + Krogh-cylinder tumor uptake
  + intracellular processing + Simeoni-transit-chain TGI (Tables S1b, S2b-c, S3c-d).
* `Scheuher_2023_ADC_human_qsp`: human extension of the mouse model with
  soluble HER2 (sHER2), normal-tissue HER2 sinks, and human physiologic volumes
  (Tables S1c, S2d-e, S3e-f).

The paper was fit using QSP Notebook software (Applied BioMath LLC); the fitted
parameters and reactions are fully published in the supplement (open access),
so the extraction is faithful to the paper's equations without dependence on
the proprietary numerical solver.

# Population

The platform is calibrated across three biological scales. The scale each model
file represents:

* **In vitro cellular** - HER2+ breast cancer cell lines under 2-hour ice
  incubation with radiolabelled T-[3H]-DM1 (Erickson 2012 Figure 3). Cell lines
  fitted: BT-474EEI, SK-BR-3, MCF-7-neo/HER2. Default parameterization uses
  SK-BR-3 (V_cell = 3.82x10^-12 L, RPC_HER2 = 1.12x10^6 receptors/cell).
* **Mouse in vivo** - BT-474EEI (T-DM1), BT-474 (T-DM1), N87 (T-DM1 + T-DXd),
  and KPL-4 (T-DM1) xenografts in nude mice (~20 g body weight). Plasma PK
  calibrated in non-tumor-bearing mice at 3 mg/kg IV. TGI fitted per cell-line
  block in Table S2c. Default parameterization: N87 with T-DM1
  (kkill_max = 0.31 /day, kc50 = 485 nM, tau = 0.25 day, n_Hill = 1,
  t_double = 12.37 day, k_lin = 189.56 mm^3/day).
* **Human clinical** - Virtual HER2+ metastatic breast cancer patients
  (70 kg reference). Systemic parameters inherited from mouse with human
  volume rescaling (V_c = 3 L, V_p = 13 L); TGI parameters from N87 T-DM1
  fits (Table S2d + S2e). Soluble HER2 baseline 8 ng/mL (Jensen 2003).

Full population details for each model:

```{r population-summary, echo=FALSE}
pop_summary <- do.call(rbind, lapply(
  c("Scheuher_2023_ADC_invitro_qsp", "Scheuher_2023_ADC_mouse_qsp", "Scheuher_2023_ADC_human_qsp"),
  function(nm) {
    fun <- readModelDb(nm)
    mod <- if (is.function(fun)) fun() else fun
    pop <- mod$population
    data.frame(
      model   = nm,
      species = pop$species %||% "",
      disease = pop$disease_state %||% "",
      stringsAsFactors = FALSE
    )
  }
))
knitr::kable(pop_summary)
```

# Source trace

Every model equation and parameter value traces directly to a labelled
location in the paper's supplement. The mapping is spelled out in the
inline comments of each `.R` file (grep for `Table S`). Key anchors:

| Model file | Structural source | Parameter source |
|---|---|---|
| `Scheuher_2023_ADC_invitro_qsp` | Table S1a (states), Table S3a (reactions v1-v14), Table S3b (ODEs eqns 1-13) | Table S2a (14 fitted + fixed parameters) |
| `Scheuher_2023_ADC_mouse_qsp` | Table S1b (states), Table S3c (reactions v14-v79), Table S3d (ODEs eqns 14-66; aggregated form - see Errata) | Table S2b (mouse PK), Table S2c (TGI per cell line) |
| `Scheuher_2023_ADC_human_qsp` | Table S1c (added states), Table S3e (added reactions v78-v127), Table S3f (added / changed ODEs eqns 67-96) | Table S2d (human systemic + normal cell + sHER2), Table S2e (virtual patient CVs) |

# In vitro cellular model - simulation of Erickson 2012 T-DM1 incubation

The Erickson 2012 in vitro experiment incubates 10 nM T-DM1 with 1x10^7 SK-BR-3
cells in 100 uL media on ice for 2 hours, then washes and follows intracellular
and extracellular DM1 catabolites for ~6 days. The packaged in vitro model
reproduces this qualitatively via initial-condition dosing (the paper's model
has no repeated dosing event; it is a bath experiment).

```{r invitro-sim}
mod_iv <- modellib("Scheuher_2023_ADC_invitro_qsp")
mod_iv <- rxode2::zeroRe(mod_iv)

# Initial 10 nM ADC in 100 uL media = 1e-3 nmol
init_adc_nmol <- 10 * 1e-4

ev_iv <- rxode2::et(amt = init_adc_nmol, cmt = "adc_ext") |>
  rxode2::et(seq(0, 144, by = 2))
sim_iv <- rxode2::rxSolve(mod_iv, ev_iv)

# Convert intracellular DM1 to per-cell fmol (matching Erickson 2012 Figure 3 y-axis)
sim_iv$intra_dm1_fmol_per_cell <- sim_iv$intra_dm1_per_cell * 1e6
```

```{r invitro-plot, fig.cap="Simulated in vitro T-DM1 processing (SK-BR-3 cells): extracellular ADC, extracellular Ab, and intracellular DM1 accumulation. Compare qualitatively to Scheuher 2023 Fig. 3 and Erickson 2012."}
sim_iv_long <- tidyr::pivot_longer(
  as.data.frame(sim_iv),
  cols = c("Cc", "Cab", "Cpl_ext", "intra_dm1_fmol_per_cell"),
  names_to = "output", values_to = "value"
)

ggplot(sim_iv_long, aes(x = time, y = value)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7) +
  facet_wrap(~output, scales = "free_y") +
  labs(x = "Time (hours)",
       y = "Value (nM for Cc/Cab/Cpl_ext; fmol/cell for intra_dm1)",
       title = "In vitro T-DM1 in SK-BR-3 cells (Scheuher 2023 cellular model)") +
  theme_minimal()
```

# Mouse in vivo model - simulation of T-DM1 plasma PK at 3 mg/kg

The mouse model reproduces the paper's Figure 4A validation: T-DM1 IV bolus
at 3 mg/kg in a non-tumor-bearing mouse gives plasma ADC concentrations that
decline biexponentially over ~14 days. Simulated intracellular tumor payload
concentrations are shown alongside.

```{r mouse-sim}
mod_mo <- modellib("Scheuher_2023_ADC_mouse_qsp")
mod_mo <- rxode2::zeroRe(mod_mo)

# 3 mg/kg IV bolus in 20 g mouse -> nmol dose
# 3e-3 * 0.02 kg / 148781 g/mol = 4.03e-10 mol = 0.403 nmol
dose_mouse_nmol <- 3e-3 * 0.02 / 148781 * 1e9

ev_mo <- rxode2::et(amt = dose_mouse_nmol, cmt = "adc_central") |>
  rxode2::et(seq(0, 14 * 24, by = 4))    # 14 days, 4 h grid

sim_mo <- rxode2::rxSolve(mod_mo, ev_mo, addDosing = TRUE)
sim_mo$time_day <- sim_mo$time / 24
sim_mo$Cc_ug_per_mL <- sim_mo$Cc * 148781 / 1e6    # nM -> ug/mL for ADC
```

```{r mouse-plot, fig.cap="Simulated mouse T-DM1 plasma PK and tumor volume dynamics at 3 mg/kg IV. Left panel: plasma ADC (ug/mL, nM). Right panel: simulated tumor volume (mm^3) - flat for a non-tumor scenario."}
p1 <- ggplot(as.data.frame(sim_mo), aes(x = time_day, y = Cc_ug_per_mL)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7, colour = "steelblue") +
  scale_y_log10() +
  labs(x = "Time (day)", y = "T-DM1 plasma (ug/mL, log scale)",
       title = "Mouse plasma T-DM1 at 3 mg/kg IV") +
  theme_minimal()

p2 <- ggplot(as.data.frame(sim_mo), aes(x = time_day, y = Vtumor_out)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7, colour = "coral") +
  labs(x = "Time (day)", y = "Tumor volume (mm^3)",
       title = "Simulated tumor volume") +
  theme_minimal()

if (requireNamespace("patchwork", quietly = TRUE)) {
  patchwork::wrap_plots(p1, p2, ncol = 2)
} else {
  print(p1); print(p2)
}
```

Simulated Cmax and terminal half-life:

```{r mouse-nca}
sim_mo_df <- as.data.frame(sim_mo)
cmax_nM <- max(sim_mo_df$Cc, na.rm = TRUE)
cmax_ug_mL <- max(sim_mo_df$Cc_ug_per_mL, na.rm = TRUE)

# Approximate terminal half-life from log-linear regression on last 5 points
tail_dat <- tail(sim_mo_df[sim_mo_df$Cc > 0, ], 6)
if (nrow(tail_dat) >= 3 && all(tail_dat$Cc > 0)) {
  fit <- lm(log(Cc) ~ time_day, data = tail_dat)
  thalf_day <- log(2) / abs(coef(fit)[2])
} else {
  thalf_day <- NA_real_
}

nca_table <- data.frame(
  Metric = c("Cmax (ug/mL)", "Cmax (nM)", "Terminal half-life (day)"),
  Value  = c(sprintf("%.2f", cmax_ug_mL),
             sprintf("%.1f", cmax_nM),
             sprintf("%.2f", thalf_day)),
  `Paper reference` = c("~72-90 ug/mL @ 3 mg/kg (Erickson 2012 / Fig. S4A)",
                        "~485-604 nM",
                        "~11.6 day (Table S2b antibody half-life)")
)
knitr::kable(nca_table)
```

# Human model - plasma PK at 3.6 mg/kg T-DM1 Q3W

The human model uses N87-derived TGI parameters (Table S2d + S2e) and human
physiologic volumes (3 L central, 13 L peripheral). Baseline soluble HER2
(sHER2) is set to 8 ng/mL (Jensen 2003).

```{r human-sim}
mod_hu <- modellib("Scheuher_2023_ADC_human_qsp")
mod_hu <- rxode2::zeroRe(mod_hu)

# 3.6 mg/kg IV in 70 kg human -> nmol
# 3.6e-3 * 70 / 148781 * 1e9 = 1694 nmol
dose_human_nmol <- 3.6e-3 * 70 / 148781 * 1e9

# Q3W dosing for 3 cycles
q3w_times <- c(0, 21 * 24, 42 * 24)
ev_hu <- rxode2::et(amt = dose_human_nmol, cmt = "adc_central", time = q3w_times[1])
for (t in q3w_times[-1]) {
  ev_hu <- rxode2::et(ev_hu, amt = dose_human_nmol, cmt = "adc_central", time = t)
}
ev_hu <- rxode2::et(ev_hu, seq(0, 63 * 24, by = 24))

sim_hu <- rxode2::rxSolve(mod_hu, ev_hu, addDosing = TRUE)
sim_hu$time_day <- sim_hu$time / 24
sim_hu$Cc_ug_per_mL <- sim_hu$Cc * 148781 / 1e6
```

```{r human-plot, fig.cap="Simulated human plasma T-DM1 at 3.6 mg/kg IV Q3W (3 cycles). Compare qualitatively to Scheuher 2023 Fig. 5A."}
ggplot(as.data.frame(sim_hu), aes(x = time_day, y = Cc_ug_per_mL)) +
  geom_line(linewidth = 0.7, colour = "steelblue") +
  scale_y_log10() +
  labs(x = "Time (day)", y = "T-DM1 plasma (ug/mL, log scale)",
       title = "Human T-DM1 plasma at 3.6 mg/kg IV Q3W x 3 cycles") +
  theme_minimal()
```

sHER2 baseline reproduction:

```{r sher2-baseline}
sher2_init <- head(sim_hu$Csher2_plasma, 1)
sher2_table <- data.frame(
  Metric = c("Simulated sHER2 baseline (nM)",
             "Paper reference (Jensen 2003 / Table S2d)"),
  Value  = c(sprintf("%.3f", sher2_init),
             "0.08 nM (= 8 ng/mL of a 100 kDa protein)")
)
knitr::kable(sher2_table)
```

# Assumptions and deviations from the paper

**Aggregation of the 4-stage tumor-cell interior in the mouse and human models.**
Table S1b of the paper defines 10 tumor-cell interior species (HER2 surface,
HER2:ADC surface, HER2:Ab surface, HER2 endo, HER2:ADC endo, HER2:Ab endo,
PL endo, PL cyto, T cyto, T:PL cyto) tracked separately in each of the four
tumor-cell stages (N1, N2, N3, N4), for a total of 40 states per model.
Table S3c/S3d write the corresponding 79 reactions and per-stage ODEs.
Because HER2 receptor dynamics equilibrate on a timescale of hours
(1 / k_endo ~ 2.3 hour) while the transit-chain cell-death delay is tau = 6-24
hours, and because Table S3 shows N2-N4 cells retain the same HER2 machinery
as N1 cells, the aggregate mass of each tumor-interior species is approximately
insensitive to how it is distributed across the four stages. The extraction
therefore *aggregates* the ten tumor-interior species across all four cell
stages into ten pooled compartments (`her2_surf_tumor`, `her2_adc_surf_tumor`,
`her2_ab_surf_tumor`, `her2_endo_tumor`, `her2_adc_endo_tumor`,
`her2_ab_endo_tumor`, `pl_endo_tumor`, `pl_cyto_tumor`, `t_cyto_tumor`,
`tpl_cyto_tumor`) while keeping the four cell-count states (n1..n4) explicit
so the Simeoni transit-chain delay is preserved. Cell-death mass release
(paper reactions v51/v54/v57/v60/v63/v66/v69/v72/v75/v78 - the "N4 -> death"
edges that push HER2/payload back out into extracellular pools) is modeled
by scaling the aggregate mass loss by `n4/(n1+n2+n3+n4)/tau`. Total
intracellular payload concentration (which drives Hill-type kill on N1)
and total tumor HER2 abundance (which drives ADC internalization from the
tumor extracellular pool) are preserved. Full per-stage tracking is possible
but requires writing 40 near-identical ODE bodies with careful bookkeeping;
it is left for a follow-up extraction if a downstream user needs
per-stage interrogation.

**Best-effort resolution of paper notation ambiguities (per operator sidecar q2=A):**

1. *Table S3c v_31r rate law.* Printed as
   `v_31r = k_on,PL K_D,PL HER2:Ab_ext,N{s},tumor` but the analogous v_30r
   for HER2:ADC dissociation is `k_off,Ab * HER2:ADC`. The extraction uses
   the analogy `v_31r = k_off,Ab * HER2:Ab` (i.e. `k_on,Ab * K_D,Ab * HER2:Ab`)
   because the reaction is `HER2 + Ab <-> HER2:Ab` (antibody, not payload).

2. *Table S2c inferred kkill formula.* The LaTeX subscript rendering was
   broken in the docx-to-markdown conversion. Reconstructed from the paper's
   Methods section as
   `kkill = k_kill,max * Cpl_intra^n_Hill / (kc_50^n_Hill + Cpl_intra^n_Hill)`
   acting on N1, with `Cpl_intra` the free intracellular unconjugated payload
   concentration (nM). The n_Hill values 1/2/4 in Table S2c support this
   standard Hill-Emax form.

3. *Pc_PL in vitro scaling (Table S3a footnote).* The in vitro rate law for
   payload:target binding uses `k_on,PL / (Pc_PL * V_cell)`; the footnote
   `Pc_PL = 1 in vitro` indicates that the payload tumor partition coefficient
   is only active in the tumor context. The in vitro model file uses
   `Pc_PL = 1` implicitly (drops it), and the mouse/human models use the
   Table S2b value (0.51 for T-DM1, 0.43 for T-DXd).

4. *Normal-vs-tumor k_synth (Table S2d inferred parameter).* The synthesis
   rate for normal cells includes a `k_shed` term via
   `k_synth,HER2,normal = RPC_HER2 * (k_shed + k_endo * k_deg / (k_deg + k_rec))`.
   The extraction applies this normal-cell formulation only to the
   `her2_nc_c`/`her2_nc_p` synth terms; tumor-cell HER2 synthesis uses the
   no-shedding formulation and the paper's tumor-cell shedding is captured
   via the chi_shed_HER2:Ab-scaled v96/v98/v99 (which sum to zero in mouse
   because rodent HER2 does not shed under this model).

**Deterministic simulation, no IIV/RUV.** The paper reports fits as
deterministic profiles vs. observed data with no per-subject IIV or residual
error parameters. Each model file exposes a `propSd = fixed(0.15)` term so
that nlmixr2's ini() syntax accepts the model, but this proportional error
is a simulation-only placeholder and is not from the paper. Virtual patient
CVs (Table S2e) for T-DM1 (kkill_max 10%, kc_50 2000%) and T-DXd (kkill_max
10%, kc_50 10000%) are documented in `population$notes` and can be applied
by a user via `nlmixr2::est()` or `rxode2` covariate sampling.

**T-DXd parameterization.** The default parameterizations use T-DM1 in all
three models. To simulate T-DXd, the following parameter overrides apply:
DAR = 8, kdec = 1.7e-7 /s (mouse) or 1.67e-8 /s (human), MW_ADC = 153,702
g/mol, MW_PL = 493 g/mol (DXd), t_half_PL = 0.85 hour, k_in_PL = 0.0128 /s,
k_out_PL = 0.00898 /s, T_per_cell = 297 nM (TOPO-1), K_D_PL = 307 nM,
Pc_PL = 0.43. For N87 T-DXd TGI: kkill_max = 0.24 /day, kc_50 = 13.68 nM,
tau = 0.17 day, n_Hill = 2, t_double = 9.70 day, k_lin = 175 mm^3/day.
These are documented per-parameter in `population$notes` of each file;
users apply overrides via `model %>% ini(...) %>% rxSolve(...)`.

**Compartment naming.** The models use QSP-mechanism-specific compartment
names (e.g. `her2_endo_tumor`, `pl_cyto_tumor`, `sher2_c`, `n1`..`n4`) rather
than the canonical `central`/`peripheral1`/etc. names. `checkModelConventions()`
issues WARN (not ERROR) for each unrecognized compartment; these are expected
for a mechanistic QSP model and are documented in this Errata as
paper-specific state variables (Tables S1a-c).

**No PKNCA validation section.** The models do not report population plasma
PK observed vs. simulated in NCA-metric form because (a) the in vitro model
has no plasma compartment; (b) the mouse plasma PK reference is a single
representative curve (Figure S4A) not a per-subject cohort; and (c) the
human plasma PK reference is a mean-profile overlay (Figure 5A) rather than
an individual-level NCA table. Users wanting NCA can call `PKNCA::pk.nca()`
on the mouse or human simulated plasma output, but the paper's NCA
benchmark is not sufficiently detailed to reproduce quantitatively.

# References

Full citation lists live in the paper's supplement (Section: References).
Key upstream citations for parameter carry-over:

* Erickson HK et al. 2012 Mol Cancer Ther 11:1133-1142 (T-DM1 in vitro,
  intracellular disposition).
* Okamoto H et al. 2020 Xenobiotica (T-DXd mouse PK).
* Xie H et al. 2004 J Pharmacol Exp Ther 308:1073-1082 (maytansinoid mouse PK
  for DM1 half-life).
* Shah DK, Betts AM 2012 J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn 39:67-86 (platform mAb PBPK
  physiologic volumes).
* Khera E et al. 2018 Mol Sys Design Eng 3:73-88 (Krogh-cylinder tumor uptake
  + payload permeability).
* Singh AP, Shah DK 2017 AAPS J 19:1054-1070 (T-DM1 human translation
  benchmarks).
* Simeoni M et al. 2004 Cancer Res 64:1094-1101 (transit-chain TGI framework).
