Abstract:Background: Cancer treatment by conventional chemotherapy is hindered by toxic side effects and the frequent development of multi-drug resistance by cancer cells. Cytotoxic peptides are a promising class of drugs that avoid the shortcomings of conventional chemotherapy because certain peptides exhibit selective cytotoxicity against a broad spectrum of human cancer cells (Mader J.S. and Hoskin D.W., 2006). Protein kinase C (PKC) is a family of kinases involved in the transduction of signals for cell proliferati… Show more
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