Subsequent to these phenotypic reports of 1,2,3-dithiazoles as anticancer compounds in various cell lines, a just over forty compound 1,2,3-dithiazole library was screened by Indiveri et al. against a transporter target over-expressed in various cancers, the glutamine-amino acid transporter ASCT2 in 2012 [65]. Here, SLC1A5 is linked to cancer.