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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 279, Issue 52, Pages 54494-54501Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M409264200
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The protozoan parasite Leishmania relies on the uptake of folate and pterin from the environment to meet its nutritional requirements. We show here that a novel gene ( folate transporter 1 (FT1)) deleted in a Leishmania infantum methotrexate-resistant mutant corresponds to the main folate transporter (K-m, 410 nM). FT1 was established as the main folate transporter by both gene transfection and by targeted gene deletion. Modulation of the expression of FT1 by these manipulations altered the susceptibility of Leishmania cells to methotrexate. Folate transport was stage-regulated with higher activity in the logarithmic phase and less in the stationary phase. FT1 fused to green fluorescent protein led to the observation that FT1 was located in the plasma membrane in the logarithmic phase but was re-targeted to an intracellular organelle followed by a degradation of the protein in stationary phase. Leishmania has several folate transporters with different characteristics, and the growth stage-related activity of at least one transporter is regulated post-translationally.
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