What do drug transporters really do?

SK Nigam - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Potential drug–drug interactions mediated by the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter
and solute carrier (SLC) transporter families are of clinical and regulatory concern. However …

The organic anion transporter (OAT) family: a systems biology perspective

SK Nigam, KT Bush, G Martovetsky… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
The organic anion transporter (OAT) subfamily, which constitutes roughly half of the SLC22
(solute carrier 22) transporter family, has received a great deal of attention because of its …

Handling of drugs, metabolites, and uremic toxins by kidney proximal tubule drug transporters

SK Nigam, W Wu, KT Bush, MP Hoenig… - Clinical journal of the …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
The proximal tubule of the kidney plays a crucial role in the renal handling of drugs (eg,
diuretics), uremic toxins (eg, indoxyl sulfate), environmental toxins (eg, mercury, aristolochic …

The SLC22 transporter family: a paradigm for the impact of drug transporters on metabolic pathways, signaling, and disease

SK Nigam - Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The SLC22 transporter family consists of more than two dozen members, which are
expressed in the kidney, the liver, and other tissues. Evolutionary analysis indicates that …

Drug transporters in drug efficacy and toxicity

MK DeGorter, CQ Xia, JJ Yang… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Drug transporters are now widely acknowledged as important determinants governing drug
absorption, excretion, and, in many cases, extent of drug entry into target organs. There is …

How drugs get into cells: tested and testable predictions to help discriminate between transporter-mediated uptake and lipoidal bilayer diffusion

DB Kell, SG Oliver - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
One approach to experimental science involves creating hypotheses, then testing them by
varying one or more independent variables, and assessing the effects of this variation on the …

Renal organic anion transporters (SLC22 family): expression, regulation, roles in toxicity, and impact on injury and disease

L Wang, DH Sweet - The AAPS journal, 2013 - Springer
Organic solute flux across the basolateral and apical membranes of renal proximal tubule
cells is a key process for maintaining systemic homeostasis. It represents an important route …

The promiscuous binding of pharmaceutical drugs and their transporter-mediated uptake into cells: what we (need to) know and how we can do so

DB Kell, PD Dobson, E Bilsland, SG Oliver - Drug discovery today, 2013 - Elsevier
A recent paper in this journal sought to counter evidence for the role of transport proteins in
effecting drug uptake into cells, and questions that transporters can recognize drug …

[HTML][HTML] Diuretic resistance in patients with kidney disease: Challenges and opportunities

L Guo, B Fu, Y Liu, N Hao, Y Ji, H Yang - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Edema caused by kidney disease is called renal edema. Edema is a common symptom of
many human kidney diseases. Patients with renal edema often need to take diuretics …

Recent advance in the pharmacogenomics of human Solute Carrier Transporters (SLCs) in drug disposition

F Zhou, L Zhu, K Wang, M Murray - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Drug pharmacokinetics is influenced by the function of metabolising enzymes and
influx/efflux transporters. Genetic variability of these genes is known to impact on clinical …