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Alejandro Llorente-Esteban

Vanderbilt University

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Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1

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Engineering substrate selectivity in the human sodium/iodide symporter (NIS)

Alejandro Llorente-Esteban, Haswitha Sabbineni, Kendra Hoffsmith, Rían W. Manville, David López-González, Andrea Reyna‐Neyra, J. Alfonso Leyva, Geoffrey Winston Abbott, Mario A. Bianchet, Nancy Carrasco

This paper engineers a sodium/iodide symporter variant that selectively transports oxyanions over iodide, enabling targeted cancer therapy without harming the thyroid.

bioRxiv · Oct 7, 2025 · PreprintBiophysics