This transporter has been shown to be upregulated in several cancers (Ruffin et al., 2020) and to be involved in cell growth, proliferation, and the mechanistic target of rapamycin kinase (mTOR) pathway in breast (Karunakaran et al., 2011), pancreatic (Coothankandaswamy et al., 2016), and colonic (Sikder et al., 2020) cancer cell lines. This evidence concerns the gene MTOR and cancer.