Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

A phosphotyrosine switch regulates organic cation transporters

  • Jason A. Sprowl,
  • Su Sien Ong,
  • Alice A. Gibson,
  • Shuiying Hu,
  • Guoqing Du,
  • Wenwei Lin,
  • Lie Li,
  • Shashank Bharill,
  • Rachel A. Ness,
  • Adrian Stecula,
  • Steven M. Offer,
  • Robert B. Diasio,
  • Anne T. Nies,
  • Matthias Schwab,
  • Guido Cavaletti,
  • Eberhard Schlatter,
  • Giuliano Ciarimboli,
  • Jan H. M. Schellens,
  • Ehud Y. Isacoff,
  • Andrej Sali,
  • Taosheng Chen,
  • Sharyn D. Baker,
  • Alex Sparreboom,
  • Navjotsingh Pabla

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10880
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Organic cation transporters are important drug transporters that influence therapeutic outcomes. Here, the authors find that these transporters are regulated by tyrosine phosphorylation and propose that tyrosine kinase inhibitors can influence drug transporter function through post-translational mechanisms.