Nature Communications (May 2022)

Peptide nano-blanket impedes fibroblasts activation and subsequent formation of pre-metastatic niche

  • Yi Zhou,
  • Peng Ke,
  • Xiaoyan Bao,
  • Honghui Wu,
  • Yiyi Xia,
  • Zhentao Zhang,
  • Haiqing Zhong,
  • Qi Dai,
  • Linjie Wu,
  • Tiantian Wang,
  • Mengting Lin,
  • Yaosheng Li,
  • Xinchi Jiang,
  • Qiyao Yang,
  • Yiying Lu,
  • Xincheng Zhong,
  • Min Han,
  • Jianqing Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30634-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Primary tumors “spread the spark” by establishing a pre-metastatic niche. Here the authors develop an in-situ assembled peptide FR17 to serve as a “flame-retarding blanket” to extinguish the “fire” of the pre-metastatic microenvironment.