TY - JOUR
T1 - Biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease-linked mutations inhibit thiamine transport via hTHTR2
T2 - Biotin is not a substrate for hTHTR2
AU - Subramanian, Veedamali S.
AU - Marchant, Jonathan S.
AU - Said, Hamid M.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The water-soluble micronutrient thiamine is required for normal tissue growth and development in humans. Thiamine is accumulated into cells through the activity of two cell surface thiamine transporters (hTHTR1 and hTHTR2), which are differentially targeted in polarized tissues. Mutational dysfunction of hTHTR1 is associated with the clinical condition of thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia: the symptoms of which are alleviated by thiamine supplementation. Recently, two hTHTR2 mutants (G23V, T422A) have been discovered in clinical kindreds manifesting biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease (BBGD): the symptoms of which are alleviated by biotin administration. Why then does mutation of a specific thiamine transporter isoform precipitate a disorder correctable by exogenous biotin? To investigate the suggestion that hTHTR2 can physiologically function as a biotin transporter, we examined 1) the cell biological basis of hTHTR2 dysfunction associated with the G23V and T422A mutations and 2) the substrate specificity of hTHTR2 and these clinically relevant mutants. We show that the G23V and T422A mutants both abrogate thiamine transport activity rather than targeting of hTHTR2 to the cell surface. Furthermore, biotin accumulation was not detectable in cells overexpressing either the full length hTHTR2 or the clinically relevant hTHTR2 mutants, yet was demonstrable in the same assay using cells overexpressing the human sodium-dependent multivitamin transporter, a known biotin transporter. These results cast doubt on the most parsimonious explanation for the BBGD phenotype, namely that hTHTR2 is a physiological biotin transporter.
AB - The water-soluble micronutrient thiamine is required for normal tissue growth and development in humans. Thiamine is accumulated into cells through the activity of two cell surface thiamine transporters (hTHTR1 and hTHTR2), which are differentially targeted in polarized tissues. Mutational dysfunction of hTHTR1 is associated with the clinical condition of thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia: the symptoms of which are alleviated by thiamine supplementation. Recently, two hTHTR2 mutants (G23V, T422A) have been discovered in clinical kindreds manifesting biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease (BBGD): the symptoms of which are alleviated by biotin administration. Why then does mutation of a specific thiamine transporter isoform precipitate a disorder correctable by exogenous biotin? To investigate the suggestion that hTHTR2 can physiologically function as a biotin transporter, we examined 1) the cell biological basis of hTHTR2 dysfunction associated with the G23V and T422A mutations and 2) the substrate specificity of hTHTR2 and these clinically relevant mutants. We show that the G23V and T422A mutants both abrogate thiamine transport activity rather than targeting of hTHTR2 to the cell surface. Furthermore, biotin accumulation was not detectable in cells overexpressing either the full length hTHTR2 or the clinically relevant hTHTR2 mutants, yet was demonstrable in the same assay using cells overexpressing the human sodium-dependent multivitamin transporter, a known biotin transporter. These results cast doubt on the most parsimonious explanation for the BBGD phenotype, namely that hTHTR2 is a physiological biotin transporter.
KW - Polarity
KW - Transporter
KW - Vitamin
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U2 - 10.1152/ajpcell.00105.2006
DO - 10.1152/ajpcell.00105.2006
M3 - Article
C2 - 16790503
AN - SCOPUS:33751091272
VL - 291
SP - C851-C859
JO - American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology
JF - American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology
SN - 0363-6143
IS - 5
ER -