期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 293, 期 5, 页码 C1669-C1678出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00202.2007
关键词
intestinal folate absorption; proton-coupled folate transporters; heme carrier protein-1; hereditary folate malabsorption
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [CA-82621, CA-53535] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS-30808] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [GN-77660] Funding Source: Medline
This laboratory recently identified a human gene that encodes a novel folate transporter [Homo sapiens proton-coupled folate transporter (HsPCFT); SLC46A1] required for intestinal folate absorption. This study focused on mouse (Mus musculus) PCFT (MmPCFT) and rat (Rattus norvegicus) PCFT (RnPCFT) and addresses their secondary structure, specificity, tissue expression, and regulation by dietary folates. Both rodent PCFT proteins traffic to the cell membrane with the NH2- and COOH- termini accessible to antibodies targeted to these domains only in permeabilized HeLa cells. This, together with computer-based topological analyses, is consistent with a model in which rodent PCFT proteins likely contain 12 transmembrane domains. Transport of [H-3] folates was optimal at pH 5.5 and decreased with increasing pH due to an increase in K-m and a decrease in V-max. At pH 7.0, folic acid and methotrexate influx was negligible, but there was residual (6S) 5methyltetrahydrofolate transport. Uptake of folates in PCFT-injected Xenopus oocytes was electrogenic and pH dependent. Folic acid influx Km values of MmPCFT and RnPCFT, assessed electrophysiologically, were 0.7 and 0.3 mu M at pH 5.5 and 1.1 and 0.8 mu M at pH 6.5, respectively. Rodent PCFTs were highly specific for monoglutamyl but not polyglutamyl methotrexate. MmPCFT mRNA was highly expressed in the duodenum, proximal jejunum, liver, and kidney with lesser expression in the brain and other tissues. MmPCFT protein was localized to the apical brush-border membrane of the duodenum and proximal jejunum. MmPCFT mRNA levels increased similar to 13-fold in the proximal small intestine in mice fed a folate-deficient vesus folate-replete diet, consistent with the critical role that PCFT plays in intestinal folate absorption.
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