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An L1210 cell line (JT-1), which can grow in medium supplemented with 1nm folate, has been isolated. These cells exhibit a slower growth rate than folate-replete parental cells and have a lower ability to transport folate or methotrexate via the reduced folate transport system. Measurements at nanomolar concentrations of folate revealed that the adapted cells have acquired a high-affinity folate-binding protein. Binding to this component at 37°C was rapid and reached a maximum value after 30 min which corresponded in amount to 0.23±0.3 pmol/mg protein, and excess unlabeled folate added 30 min subsequent to the [3H]folate led to a rapid release of the bound substrate. Radioactivity bound to or released from the cells after 30 min at 37°C remained as unmetabolized folic acid. Binding was also rapid at 0°C but uptake at the plateau was only one-half the value obtained at 37°C. Half-maximal saturation of the binding component (K D) occurred at a folate concentration of 0.065nm at pH 7.4, while the affinity for folate decreased 30-fold when the pH was reduced to 6.2 (K D=2.0nm). 5-Methyltetrahydrofolate was also bound by this component (K i=13nm at pH 7.4) but with a much lower affinity than for folate, while progressively weaker interactions were observed with 5-formyltetrahydrofolate (K i=45nm) and methotrexate (K i=325nm). When the same adaptation procedure was performed with limiting amounts of 5-formyltetrahydrofolate, two additional cell lines, JT-2 and JT-3, were isolated which expressed elevated levels of the folate-binding protein. The binding activity of the latter cells was 0.46 and 1.4 pmol/mg protein, respectively. When the level of binding protein was compared in cells grown at different concentrations of folate, an increase in medium folate from 1 to 500nm caused a sevenfold reduction in binding activity in the JT-3 cell line, while these same growth conditions had no effect on binding by the other cells. These results indicate that L1210 cells adapted to low concentrations of folate or 5-formyltetrahydrofolate contain elevated levels of a high-affinity binding protein and that this protein is able to mediate the intracellular accumulation of folate compounds. L1210 cells thus appear to have two potential uptake routes for folate compounds, the previously characterized anion-exchange system and a second route mediated by a high-affinity binding protein. An additional low-affinity, high-capacity transport system for folate that had been proposed previously was not observed under a variety of experimental conditions in either the adapted or parental cells.
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Henderson, G.B., Tsuji, J.M. & Kumar, H.P. Mediated uptake of folate by a high-affinity binding protein in sublines of L1210 cells adapted to nanomolar concentrations of folate. J. Membrain Biol. 101, 247–258 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01872839
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