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Query: EC:3.5.1.52 (PNGase F)
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A K562 human erythroleukemia line (designated K562.4CF) was selected for increased tetrahydrofolate cofactor transport in a growth-limiting concentration (0.4 nM) of (6R,S)-5-formyltetrahydrofolate. K562.4CF cells exhibited elevated methotrexate uptake relative to parental cells, attributable to a 10-fold increased influx Vmax. The rate of methotrexate efflux in K562.4CF cells was somewhat increased (55%) as well. The transport system in K562.4CF cells had similar and high apparent binding affinities for methotrexate and 5-formyltetrahydrofolate and a markedly reduced affinity for folic acid, properties typically associated with the "classical" methotrexate/tetrahydrofolate cofactor transporter in tumor cells. Methotrexate uptake in K562.4CF cells decreased substantially under nonselective conditions; high levels of transport were restored in 0.4 nM 5-formyltetrahydrofolate. Treatment of parental and K562.4CF cells with N-hydroxysuccinimide methotrexate inhibited methotrexate influx. N-Hydroxysuccinimide-[3H]methotrexate (700 nM) radiolabeled a broadly migrating band at Mr 76,000-85,000. Incorporation from N-hydroxysuccinimide-[3H]methotrexate into this band was increased 7-fold in K562.4CF over parental cells and was blocked by unlabeled methotrexate, (6S)-5-formyltetrahydrofolate, or, to a lesser extent, folic acid. Whereas incubation with endoglycosidase F had no effect on the electrophoretic migration of the labeled protein, treatment with endoglycosidase F and glycopeptidase F, or endo-beta-galactosidase, reduced the apparent molecular weight to Mr approximately 52,000 or approximately 58,000, respectively. These results suggest that the high-affinity transporter in K562.4CF cells is an N-linked glycoprotein containing internal beta-galactosidic linkages in, or immediately after, unbranched poly-N-acetyllactosamine sequences. Differences in the level of glycosylation may, in part, account for the disparity in the apparent sizes of the homologous folate transport proteins from human and murine cells.
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PMID:Identification of a highly glycosylated methotrexate membrane carrier in K562 human erythroleukemia cells up-regulated for tetrahydrofolate cofactor and methotrexate transport. 205 82

The carrier protein for methotrexate and tetrahydrofolate cofactors (GP-MTX) in CCRF-CEM human lymphoblastic leukemia cells in a 117 kDa glycoprotein containing both N- and O-linked oligosaccharides (Matherly et al., J Biol Chem 267: 23253-23260, 1992). Tunicamycin, an inhibitor of N-glycosylation, was used to investigate the roles of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides in the structure, intracellular routing, and transport function of GP-MTX. Tunicamycin was growth inhibitory toward CCRF-CEM cells (IC50-0.80 micrograms/mL) and caused a potent suppression of [3H]mannose incorporation into nascent glycoproteins. From 1-3 micrograms/mL, inhibition of [3H]mannose incorporation was 66-87%, exceeding that for [35S]methionine incorporation by 2 to 4-fold. Tunicamycin (1 and 2 micrograms/mL) exposures decreased the median molecular masses of GP-MTX on immunoblots (to 82 and 67 kDa, respectively) and were accompanied by reduced maximal rates of methotrexate uptake (31 and 37%, respectively, of control levels). Conversely, the Ki values for methotrexate binding to the transporter were unaffected by tunicamycin treatments. The effects of tunicamycin on methotrexate influx closely correlated with lower levels of immunoreactive GP-MTX in plasma membranes and specific [3H]methotrexate binding to intact cells, suggesting that the transport effect was due to decreased numbers of carrier proteins at the membrane surface. The reduced molecular mass values for GP-MTX, which accompanied tunicamycin exposures, were further decreased (to 55 and 50 kDa at 1 and 2 micrograms/mL, respectively) by digestions with N-glycanase. Hence, despite the large loss of N-glycan from GP-MTX in tunicamycin-treated cells, residual core oligosaccharides remained. The sizes of hypoglycosylated GP-MTX following both treatments were similar to that of the functionally homologous methotrexate membrane carrier previously identified in L1210 murine leukemia cells.
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PMID:Role of N-glycosylation in the structure and function of the methotrexate membrane transporter from CCRF-CEM human lymphoblastic leukemia cells. 814 10