# Nuclide record nis-symporter (target). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/targets/nis-symporter/>
  a schema:BioChemEntity ;
  nuclide:kind "target" ;
  schema:identifier "nis-symporter" ;
  schema:name "NIS (sodium-iodide symporter)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Sodium/iodide cotransporter"@en, "SLC5A5"@en, "SLC5A5" ;
  schema:description "A protein in the thyroid that pulls iodine out of the blood to make thyroid hormone. It is the reason radioactive iodine can find and treat thyroid cancer almost anywhere in the body."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/targets/nis-symporter/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3752512/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3408573/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5739519/>, <https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/slc5a5/> ;
  nuclide:tag "thyroid", "ion transporter", "theranostics" ;
  nuclide:targetClass "other" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/radioactive-iodine/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioiodine-therapy/>, <https://nuclide.cc/indications/thyroid/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/thyrotropin-alfa/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/radioiodine-term/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/i-131/> .