Mapping of cancer cell fuel pumps paves the way for new drugs

For the first time, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to obtain detailed images of the way in which the transport protein GLUT transports sugars into cells. The researchers are hoping that the study, published in the scientific magazine Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, will form the basis for new strategies to fight cancer cells.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/ki-…