Chromosomal localization of the murine RFC-1 gene encoding a folate transporter and its amplification in an antifolate resistant variant overproducing the transporter.
A variant of the L1210 cell (L1210/R83) selected in the presence of the lipophilic antifolate, metoprine, and a concentration of the natural diastereoisomer of 5-formyltetrahydrofolate, lL5CHO-folateH4, suboptimum for growth exhibited a 35-fold increase compared to parental L1210 cells in one-carbon, reduced folate transport. This was evidenced by the increase in Vmax for [3H]MTX (methotrexate) influx and a commensurate increase in the amount of the 46 kilodalton (kDa) transport protein and reduced folate carrier (RFC-1) mRNA. The variant is resistant to lipophilic antifolates, but shows collateral sensitivity to classical folate analogues. Karyotype analysis of L1210/R83 cells revealed the presence of several new chromosome abnormalities. One of these was a large, submetacentric marker chromosome comprising a normal #10 and a longer, abnormally banded arm of uncertain origin which exhibited an interstitial, palely staining, HSR-like segment. The results of Southern and Northern blotting showed that the RFC-1 gene copy number and RNA transcript level were markedly increased (30-35 fold) in L1210/R83 cells. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis revealed that the HSR-like segment in these cells was the site of amplified RFC-1 genes. Independent revertant subclones, obtained following growth in the absence of selection pressure, showed four- to 12-fold decreases in [3H]MTX influx Vmax and in amount of NHS (N-hydroxysuccinimide)-[3H]MTX affinity labeled one-carbon, reduced folate transporter compared to L1210/R83 cells. RFC-1 gene copy number also decreased, and the mean length of the HSR in these revertants declined 1.6- to 5-fold. Based upon genomic nucleotide sequencing, the RFC-1 gene in the normal mouse genome was localized to chromosome 10 in close association with the alpha 1 (Col18a1) collagen gene at 10B3(locus 41cM). The close association of these genes was confirmed by other data showing that the alpha 1 collagen gene was co-amplified in L1210/R83 cells. These results document the amplification at the site of a putative HSR in an L1210 cell variant of the RFC-1 gene regulating expression of the one-carbon, reduced folate transporter.[1]References
- Chromosomal localization of the murine RFC-1 gene encoding a folate transporter and its amplification in an antifolate resistant variant overproducing the transporter. Roy, K., Chiao, J.H., Spengler, B.A., Tolner, B., Yang, C.H., Biedler, J.L., Sirotnak, F.M. Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. (1998) [Pubmed]
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