LAT and cancer: Several amino acid transporters, including the transporters for glutamine (SLC1A5/ASCT2) and leucine (SLC7A5/LAT1, which imports Leu in exchange for Gln efflux by SLC3A2/CD98/4F2hc), have been linked to mTORC1 activation and their overexpression is often associated with malignancies [20,21,22,23].