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XB-ART-50108
J Biol Chem 2015 Feb 13;2907:4476-86. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M114.624577.
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Analysis of the binding moiety mediating the interaction between monocarboxylate transporters and carbonic anhydrase II.

Noor SI , Dietz S , Heidtmann H , Boone CD , McKenna R , Deitmer JW , Becker HM .


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Proton-coupled monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) mediate the exchange of high energy metabolites like lactate between different cells and tissues. We have reported previously that carbonic anhydrase II augments transport activity of MCT1 and MCT4 by a noncatalytic mechanism, while leaving transport activity of MCT2 unaltered. In the present study, we combined electrophysiological measurements in Xenopus oocytes and pulldown experiments to analyze the direct interaction between carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) and MCT1, MCT2, and MCT4, respectively. Transport activity of MCT2-WT, which lacks a putative CAII-binding site, is not augmented by CAII. However, introduction of a CAII-binding site into the C terminus of MCT2 resulted in CAII-mediated facilitation of MCT2 transport activity. Interestingly, introduction of three glutamic acid residues alone was not sufficient to establish a direct interaction between MCT2 and CAII, but the cluster had to be arranged in a fashion that allowed access to the binding moiety in CAII. We further demonstrate that functional interaction between MCT4 and CAII requires direct binding of the enzyme to the acidic cluster (431)EEE in the C terminus of MCT4 in a similar fashion as previously shown for binding of CAII to the cluster (489)EEE in the C terminus of MCT1. In CAII, binding to MCT1 and MCT4 is mediated by a histidine residue at position 64. Taken together, our results suggest that facilitation of MCT transport activity by CAII requires direct binding between histidine 64 in CAII and a cluster of glutamic acid residues in the C terminus of the transporter that has to be positioned in surroundings that allow access to CAII.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: ca2 mcts1 slc16a3 slc16a7

References [+] :
Becker, Facilitated lactate transport by MCT1 when coexpressed with the sodium bicarbonate cotransporter (NBC) in Xenopus oocytes. 2004, Pubmed, Xenbase