SLC5A5 and neurodegenerative disease: The usefulness of S. cerevisiae as a model for the expression of human α‐synuclein showed by recent studies (Menezes et al., 2015; Fruhmann et al., 2017; Verbandt et al., 2017) provide an interesting system to check whether Tdh1,2‐Tdh3 binding plays a role in the aggregation of this protein and the possibility of using yeast for the study of the mechanisms that underlie in the propagation of neurodegenerative diseases.