Our cancer-targeting database was developed by Kapoor and co-workers in 2012 and was adapted from the Tumor Homing Peptide Database (TumorHoPe).1 This database was recently cited in “Handbook of In Vivo Chemistry in Mice: From Lab to Living System (2020).2

Search Term Examples

TARGET TUMOR

  • Breast cancer
  • Breast carcinoma
  • Colon cancer
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Gastric cancer
  • Human Kaposi’s Sarcoma
  • Melanoma
  • Lung
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Pancreatic
  • Prostate cancer
  • Tumor metastasis

RECEPTORS-BIOMARKER

  • ADAM
  • CXCR4
  • Ephrin
  • Epinephrine
  • ErbB
  • E-selectin
  • Gal beta1
  • Galectin-3
  • HER2
  • Integrin
  • MT1-MMP

RECEPTORS-BIOMARKER CONT.

  • NRP-1
  • Nucleolin
  • Podoplanin
  • Prox-1
  • Proteoglycan
  • PSMA
  • SDF-1
  • VEGF
  • Vitronectin
  1. Kapoor, P., Singh, H., Gautam, A., Chaudhary, K., Kumar, R. and Raghava, G.P., 2012. TumorHoPe: a database of tumor homing peptides. PLoS One, 7(4), p.e35187.
  2. Lu, Ruei-Min, Chien-Hsun Wu, Ajay V. Patil, and Han-Chung Wu. “Peptide Targeting Methods.” Handbook of In Vivo Chemistry in Mice: From Lab to Living System (2020).