NDLI: Oligomeric Structure of the Human Reduced Folate Carrier

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Author	Hou, Zhanjun Matherly, Larry H.
Abstract	The ubiquitously expressed reduced folate carrier (RFC) is the major transport system for folate cofactors in mammalian cells and tissues. Previous considerations of RFC structure and mechanism were based on the notion that RFC monomers were sufficient to mediate transport of folate and antifolate substrates. The present study examines the possibility that human RFC (hRFC) exists as higher order homo-oligomers. By chemical cross-linking, transiently expressed hRFC in hRFC-null HeLa (R5) cells with the homobifunctional cross-linker 1,3-propanediyl bis-methanethiosulfonate and Western blotting, hRFC species with molecular masses of hRFC homo-oligomers were identified. Hemagglutinin- and Myc epitope-tagged hRFC proteins expressed in R5 cells were co-immunoprecipitated from both membrane particulate and surface-enriched membrane fractions, indicating that oligomeric hRFC is expressed at the cell surface. By co-expression of wild type and inactive mutant S138C hRFCs, combined with surface biotinylation and confocal microscopy, a dominant-negative phenotype was demonstrated involving greatly decreased cell surface expression of both mutant and wild type carrier caused by impaired intracellular trafficking. For another hRFC mutant (R373A), expression of oligomeric wild type-mutant hRFC was accompanied by a significant and disproportionate loss of wild type activity unrelated to the level of surface carrier. Collectively, our results demonstrate the existence of hRFC homo-oligomers. They also establish the likely importance of these higher order hRFC structures to intracellular trafficking and carrier function.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m807206200
Ending Page	3293
Page Count	9
Starting Page	3285
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00219258
e-ISSN	1083351X
Journal	The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Issue Number	5
Volume Number	284
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Publisher Date	2009-01-30
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Subject Keyword	Cell Biology Biochemistry Molecular Biology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cell Biology Biochemistry Molecular Biology

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