Checkpoint blockade by a D-peptide for cancer immunotherapy
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
Our immune system ought to be able to recognize and kill tumor cells. However, many tumors deceive the immune system. For example, they induce the so-called immune checkpoints of T-cells to shut down immune responses. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists have now introduced a new approach for immunological tumor treatment. Their method is based on the specific blockade of an immune checkpoint by a stable "mirror-image" peptide.