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SUBMITTER: Hwang JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9147327 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hwang Ji Su JS Kim Seok Gi SG Shin Tae Hwan TH Jang Yong Eun YE Kwon Do Hyeon DH Lee Gwang G
Pharmaceutics 20220506 5
Cancer is a group of diseases causing abnormal cell growth, altering the genome, and invading or spreading to other parts of the body. Among therapeutic peptide drugs, anticancer peptides (ACPs) have been considered to target and kill cancer cells because cancer cells have unique characteristics such as a high negative charge and abundance of microvilli in the cell membrane when compared to a normal cell. ACPs have several advantages, such as high specificity, cost-effectiveness, low immunogenic ...[more]