SLC15A2, a peptide transporter, is widely expressed in the lungs, kidneys, brain, and eye (Biegel et al., 2006; Kamal et al., 2008; Lu et al., 2016) and is highly expressed in human glioma cells, where it mediates carnosine uptake (Oppermann et al., 2019), although its role in cell proliferation requires further exploration. Here, SLC15A2 is linked to glioma.