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  • Title: GFP-Human high-affinity carnitine transporter OCTN2 protein: subcellular localization and functional restoration of carnitine uptake in mutant cell lines with the carnitine transporter defect.
    Author: Lamhonwah AM, Tein I.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1999 Nov 02; 264(3):909-14. PubMed ID: 10544029.
    Abstract:
    Individuals with the plasmalemmal high-affinity carnitine transporter defect present with progressive infantile-onset carnitine-responsive cardiomyopathy, lipid storage myopathy, recurrent hypoglycemic hypoketotic encephalopathy, and failure to thrive. The carnitine uptake defect (CUD) has been documented in their cultured skin fibroblasts, lymphoblasts, and/or myoblasts. The cDNA encoding the high-affinity sodium-dependent human carnitine transporter OCTN2 has recently been cloned. We used the green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a living marker for positively transfected cells in our expression studies of the high-affinity carnitine transporter OCTN2 cDNA in cell lines with the CUD. Transfection of cell lines from 12 unrelated patients (nine fibroblast and three lymphoblastoid) with a GFP construct harboring the wild-type full-length OCTN2 cDNA was done using LipoTAXI. Transient and stable expression of the recombinant GFP-human carnitine transporter OCTN2 cDNA was surveyed, and transient transfection of the fibroblast and stable transfection of the lymphoblastoid cell lines were achieved. There was functional restoration of carnitine uptake in the transfected mutant cell lines, thereby confirming the identity of the transfected cDNA. In addition, we report the first demonstration of the subcellular localization of an in-frame fusion GFP-human high-affinity carnitine transporter OCTN2 protein in the plasma membrane by confocal laser-scanning fluorescence microscopy.
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