AUTHOR=Zhang Meichen , Xu Haiyan TITLE=Peptide-assembled nanoparticles targeting tumor cells and tumor microenvironment for cancer therapy JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry VOLUME=11 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2023.1115495 DOI=10.3389/fchem.2023.1115495 ISSN=2296-2646 ABSTRACT=
Tumor cells and corrupt stromal cells in the tumor microenvironment usually overexpress cancer-specific markers that are absent or barely detectable in normal cells, providing available targets for inhibiting the occurrence and development of cancers. It is noticeable that therapeutic peptides are emerging in cancer therapies and playing more and more important roles. Moreover, the peptides can be self-assembled and/or incorporated with polymeric molecules to form nanoparticles