In recent years, with the progress of medical research and the continuous emergence of new antitumor drugs, they have antitumor activity peptides have attracted extensive attention in the field of antitumor drug research and development because they are not easy to produce drug resistance, wide sources, high bioavailability in vivo, good specificity, easy synthesis and low synthesis cost. In this paper, the peptides with antitumor activity from various sources are sorted and analyzed, in order to improve the reference for the in-depth research of antitumor peptides and the development of new drugs.

Congying Zhang. Research progress of antitumor peptides. Frontiers in Medical Science Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 4: 44-47. https://doi.org/10.25236/FMSR.2022.040407.

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