SLC transporters: structure, function, and drug discovery

C Colas, PMU Ung, A Schlessinger - Medchemcomm, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The human solute carrier (SLC) transporters are important targets for drug development.
Structure-based drug discovery for SLC transporters requires the description of their …

Solute carrier transporters as potential targets for the treatment of metabolic disease

T Schumann, J König, C Henke, DM Willmes… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - ASPET
The solute carrier (SLC) superfamily comprises more than 400 transport proteins mediating
the influx and efflux of substances such as ions, nucleotides, and sugars across biological …

Diagnostic odyssey in severe neurodevelopmental disorders: toward clinical whole‐exome sequencing as a first‐line diagnostic test

J Thevenon, Y Duffourd, A Masurel‐Paulet… - Clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The current standard of care for diagnosis of severe intellectual disability (ID) and epileptic
encephalopathy (EE) results in a diagnostic yield of∼ 50%. Affected individuals nonetheless …

[HTML][HTML] The solute carrier transporters and the brain: Physiological and pharmacological implications

C Hu, L Tao, X Cao, L Chen - Asian journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Solute carriers (SLCs) are the largest family of transmembrane transporters that determine
the exchange of various substances, including nutrients, ions, metabolites, and drugs across …

Amelogenesis imperfecta: Next-generation sequencing sheds light on Witkop's classification

A Bloch-Zupan, T Rey, A Jimenez-Armijo… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a heterogeneous group of genetic rare diseases disrupting
enamel development (Smith et al., Front Physiol, 2017a, 8, 333). The clinical enamel …

Structure and inhibition mechanism of the human citrate transporter NaCT

DB Sauer, J Song, B Wang, JK Hilton, NK Karpowich… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Citrate is best known as an intermediate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle of the cell. In addition
to this essential role in energy metabolism, the tricarboxylate anion also acts as both a …

Novel and de novo mutations in pediatric refractory epilepsy

J Liu, L Tong, S Song, Y Niu, J Li, X Wu, J Zhang… - Molecular brain, 2018 - Springer
Pediatric refractory epilepsy is a broad phenotypic spectrum with great genetic
heterogeneity. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) combined with Sanger sequencing could …

A specialized metabolic pathway partitions citrate in hydroxyapatite to impact mineralization of bones and teeth

N Dirckx, Q Zhang, EY Chu, RJ Tower… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Citrate is a critical metabolic substrate and key regulator of energy metabolism in
mammalian cells. It has been known for decades that the skeleton contains most (> 85%) of …

Structural basis for the reaction cycle of DASS dicarboxylate transporters

DB Sauer, N Trebesch, JJ Marden, N Cocco, J Song… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Citrate, α-ketoglutarate and succinate are TCA cycle intermediates that also play essential
roles in metabolic signaling and cellular regulation. These di-and tricarboxylates are …

Diagnostic exome sequencing in 100 consecutive patients with both epilepsy and intellectual disability

FM Snoeijen‐Schouwenaars, JS van Ool… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Epilepsy is highly prevalent among patients with intellectual disability (ID), and
seizure control is often difficult. Identification of the underlying etiology in this patient group is …