Almost complete purification (>95%) of the 46-kDa murine, one-carbon, reduced folate transporter (RFT) at a recovery of 20% was obtained by ligand-directed immunoaffinity fractionation from transporter overproducing L1210/R83 cells. These cells were labeled with the N-hydroxysuccinimide ester of [H]aminopterin (AMT), the isolated plasma membrane alkaline washed to remove nonintegral membrane proteins, detergent-solubilized, and RFT-separated on an anti-AMT antibody-protein G-Sepharose column followed by preparative SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Anti-RFT antibody, subsequently derived, differentially blotted (L1210/R83 L1210/0) a 46-kDa protein during SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of plasma membrane from L1210/R83 and L1210 cells and in L1210/R83 cells after trichloroacetic acid precipitation.

In contrast to that reported for human tumor cells, glycosidase treatment of RFT revealed no common N- or O-linked core oligosaccharides associated with this protein. The same 46-kDa protein at different relative levels was revealed in a Western blot of plasma membrane from other murine tumors. Blotting of plasma membrane from methotrexate resistant, transport defective L1210 cell variants exhibited wild-type levels of a less electrophoretically mobile RFT or greater levels of the same 46-kDa RFT which could not be affinity labeled with N-hydroxysuccinimide-[H]AMT. The same antibody differentially blotted a 83-kDa plasma membrane protein from human HL-60 and CCRF-CEM cells with different levels of reduced folate transport and affinity labeling of RFT, verifying the conserved nature of this protein consistent with earlier functional studies.

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