J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 259, Issue 21, 13139-13144, 11, 1984

A novel class of genetic variants of the L1210 cell up-regulated for folate analogue transport inward. Isolation, characterization, and degree of metabolic instability of the system

FM Sirotnak, DM Moccio and CH Yang

We have isolated stable variants of the L1210 cell exhibiting increased transport inward of the folate analog, methotrexate. These variants show 3- to 14-fold increases in [3H]methotrexate influx compared to parental cells but are unaltered for [3H]methotrexate efflux. This increased influx in each variant is quantitatively reflected in corresponding elevations in intracellular exchangeable levels of drug at steady state, but there is no alteration in membrane potential. The increases in influx are associated with increased values for influx Vmax for a system normally transporting reduced folates and the same increase in the amount of a specific binding component at the cell surface. Otherwise, values for influx Km and specificity for various folate structures are unchanged. This alteration in [3H]methotrexate influx is biochemically and genetically stable, since it is expressed in isolated plasma membrane vesicles and is retained during growth in non-selective medium. Following addition of cycloheximide, the same rate of decay of this transport activity (t 1/2 = 126 +/- 24 to 137 +/- 26 min) was shown for parental and variant cells. From these results we conclude that turnover of this transport property occurs in these cells which is genetically regulated. Also, the elevated transport activity inward for this folate analog in these variant cells is probably the result of a genetic alteration up-regulating the rate of synthesis of the "putative" carrier protein itself. The absence of any effect on efflux of [3H]methotrexate in these variants in the face of evidence for increased synthesis of the carrier protein for the system mediating influx of this folate analog is construed as further evidence for the nonidentity of systems mediating each flux that we proposed on the basis of earlier kinetic studies.
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