Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules23020414
Keywords
peptides; antimicrobial peptides; immunogenicity; allergy; toxicity
Funding
- National Centre for Research and Development, Poland [STRATEGMED1/235077/9/NCBR/2014]
- Polish National Science Centre [2012/05/D/NZ5/01224]
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During recent decades, the market for peptide-based drugs, including antimicrobial peptides, has vastly extended and evolved. These drugs can be useful in treatment of various types of disorders, e.g., cancer, autoimmune diseases, infections, and non-healing wounds. Although peptides are less immunogenic than other biologic therapeutics, they can still induce immune responses and cause allergies. It is important to evaluate the immunogenic and allergic potential of peptides before they are forwarded to the expensive stages of clinical trials. The process of the evaluation of immunogenicity and cytotoxicity is complicated, as in vitro models and bioinformatics tools cannot fully simulate situations in the clinic. Nevertheless, several potentially promising tests for the preclinical evaluation of peptide drugs have been implemented (e.g., cytotoxicity assays, the basophil activation test, and lymphocyte activation assays). In this review, we focus on strategies for evaluation of the allergic potential of peptide-based therapeutics.
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