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ABSORPTION, DISTRIBUTION, METABOLISM, AND EXCRETION

Recognition, Cointernalization, and Recycling of an Avian Riboflavin Carrier Protein in Human Placental Trophoblasts

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (C.W.M., V.M.D., L.M.B., A.R., P.W.S.); and Biophysics Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (M.A.P.)

Absorption of riboflavin (RF) across membrane barriers is essential to cellular oxidation reduction processes. Riboflavin carrier protein (RCP), a 37-kDa secretory protein, is proposed to play an important role in RF absorption, although information on the mammalian ortholog remains unclear. This study alludes to the existence of a mammalian RF carrier protein and further characterizes its carrier role and fate using avian RCP in human placental trophoblast (BeWo), another mammalian cell line, monkey kidney (COS-1), and the avian control, chicken hepatic (LMH/2A) cells. The presence of RCP and its involvement in RF internalization was analyzed by immunofluorescence and immunobinding assays using chicken RCP (cRCP) antibodies. In the presence of anti-cRCP, cellular RF uptake is significantly decreased (5% of control) in BeWo cells. Kinetic analyses of intracellular accumulation of ¹²⁵I-cRCP revealed a J_max and K_m of 28.56 ± 2.70 pmol/mg protein/min and 142.43 ± 82.16 nM, respectively, in BeWo cells and 75.14 ± 7.6 pmol/mg protein/min and 104.37 ± 23.96 nM in the species-specific control, LMH/2A cells. Subcellular fractionation studies revealed colocalization of both radiolabeled RF and cRCP within endosomal and lysosomal fractions, further elucidating RCP's role in trafficking RF through the cell. Following intracellular release of RF from the carrier complex, the protein is either subject to lysosomal breakdown or is conserved via recycling mechanisms for continued RF sequestration and uptake. In summary, mammalian placental trophoblasts exhibit specific carrier protein dependence that sequesters and essentially mediates RF internalization via the proposed receptor-mediated endocytic pathway.

Address correspondence to: Dr. Peter W. Swaan, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. E-mail: pswaan{at}rx.umaryland.edu

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