Mapping of Cancer Cell Fuel Pumps Paves the Way for New Drugs

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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. Since tumours are highly dependent on the transportation of nutrients in order to be able to grow rapidly, 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.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130428144853.htm