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The RESOLUTE consortium: unlocking SLC transporters for drug discovery

The Innovative Medicines Initiative Consortium RESOLUTE has started to develop tools and produce data sets to de-orphanize transporters in the solute carrier protein (SLC) superfamily, thereby lowering the barrier for the scientific community to explore SLCs as an attractive drug target class.
  1. Giulio Superti-Furga

    1. CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria; Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

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    1. †Deceased. CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

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The solute carrier proteins (SLCs) comprise a superfamily of transporters controlling the import and export of molecules across membranes. With more than 450 members, SLCs are the largest family of transporters encoded by the human genome. Although some members are successful drug targets, such as glucose and neurotransmitter transporters, the vast majority of SLCs have not been exploited therapeutically. In fact, many SLCs are ‘orphans’ in terms of knowledge of their substrate specificity and biological function.

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 19, 429-430 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-020-00056-6

Acknowledgements

This project has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 777372. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA.

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Competing Interests

Although research of the RESOLUTE consortium is in the precompetitive space, the following authors are employed by companies as indicated in more detail by their affiliations: M.C., R.E., D.H., S.L., S.N., M.P., R.S., C.M.S., H.Z., S.C., A.F., M.I., G.M., L.R., F.S., L.S., M.S., P.T., S.T., H.B., A.B., E.B., Y.N.C., A.E., A.M.F., V.P., D.Z., B.H., M.L., D.S., C.V., C.W., B.B., L.C., Y.I., M.P., J.R., J.S., P.S., K.S., C.B., B.B., J.C., M.D., H.F., T.L., V.M., A.P., F.P., V.Y., P.A., C.D., F.D., V.M., A.L.S., H.S., M.W.

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