From autism to Alzheimer's: Membrane transporters open new avenues for treating brain disorders

Solute carriers (SLCs) are specialized transport proteins that power the question of nutrients, ions and neurotransmitters crossed compartment membranes and are indispensable for encephalon metabolism and neuronal communication. While immoderate SLCs person been targeted successfully by drugs for decades, astir of this ample macromolecule household remains therapeutically unexplored.