Methods for identifying modulators of
fatty acid transport and / or uptake, comprising contacting, under conditions favorable for
fatty acid uptake, a putative modulator, e.g., an inhibitor with a
system comprising genetic material encoding a
fatty acid transport
mediator (“TTM”), particularly FAA1, FAA2, FAA3, FAA4, FAT1, fadL, fadD, FATP, CD36 and FABP, or orthologs, homologs, isoforms, variants, analogs, derivatives or fragments thereof, and combinations thereof, or fatty acid transport
mediator proteins (“TTMps”), e.g., Faa1p, Faa2p, Faa3p, Faa4p, Fat1p, FadL, fatty
acyl CoA synthetase, FATP, CD36 and FABP, or orthologs, homologs, isoforms, variants, analogs, derivatives or fragments thereof, and combinations thereof, and determining the effect of the putative modulator. The test
system may be a
cell such as
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, E. coli, H. sapiens, etc. or an
in vitro system.