“…Various regulatory mechanisms of lysosomal amino acid transport have been discovered (Abu-Remaileh et al, 2017; Bandyopadhyay et al, 2022; Leray et al, 2021), and transporter structures have been characterized (Guo et al, 2022; Lei et al, 2018; Lobel et al, 2022). In contrast, lysosomal peptide transporters have received much less attention, although it has been known for decades that in lysosomes, specific peptides are not completely proteolytically degraded to single amino acids and that lysosomal peptide transporters must exist (Bird and Lloyd, 1990; Coffey and De Duve, 1968; Isenman and Dice, 1993; Thamotharan et al, 1997). Two members of the POT family, PHT1 (SLC15A4) and PHT2 (SLC15A3) localize to lysosomes and endosomes (Bockman et al, 1997; Kobayashi et al, 2014; Nakamura et al, 2014) and have been experimentally shown to transport carnosine, MDP, tri-DAP, Gly-Sar by PHT1 and His-Leu by PHT2 (Dong et al, 2023; Oppermann et al, 2019; Sakata et al, 2001; Wang et al, 2018).…”