A role for the proton-coupled folate transporter (PCFT-SLC46A1) in folate receptor-mediated endocytosis

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Abstract

Recently, this laboratory identified a proton-coupled folate transporter (PCFT), with optimal activity at low pH. PCFT is critical to intestinal folate absorption and transport into the central nervous system because there are loss-of-function mutations in this gene in the autosomal recessive disorder, hereditary folate malabsorption. The current study addresses the role PCFT might play in another transport pathway, folate receptor (FR)-mediated endocytosis. FRα cDNA was transfected into novel PCFT+ and PCFT- HeLa sublines. FRα was shown to bind and trap folates in vesicles but with minimal export into the cytosol in PCFT- cells. Cotransfection of FRα and PCFT resulted in enhanced folate transport into cytosol as compared with transfection of FRα alone. Probenecid did not inhibit folate binding to FR, but inhibited PCFT-mediated transport at endosomal pH, and blocked FRα- mediated transport into the cytosol. FRα and PCFT co-localized to the endosomal compartment. These observations (i) indicate that PCFT plays a role in FRα-mediated endocytosis by serving as a route of export of folates from acidified endosomes and (ii) provide a functional role for PCFT in tissues in which it is expressed, such as the choroid plexus, where the extracellular milieu is at neutral pH. © 2009 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Zhao, R., Min, S. H., Wang, Y., Campanella, E., Low, P. S., & Goldman, I. D. (2009). A role for the proton-coupled folate transporter (PCFT-SLC46A1) in folate receptor-mediated endocytosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284(7), 4267–4274. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M807665200

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