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Case Reports
. 2008 Sep;153(3):435-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.04.009.

The clinical course and genetic defect in the PCFT gene in a 27-year-old woman with hereditary folate malabsorption

Sang Hee Min  1 , Sun Young Oh, George I Karp, Mortimer Poncz, Rongbao Zhao, I David Goldman
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The clinical course and genetic defect in the PCFT gene in a 27-year-old woman with hereditary folate malabsorption

Sang Hee Min et al. J Pediatr. 2008 Sep.

Abstract

We report 2 sequential homozygous mutations in the recently cloned proton-coupled folate transporter (PCFT) gene, resulting in the absence of this protein, in a 27-year-old woman with hereditary folate malabsorption, normal in all respects having completed higher education, who has been treated with parenteral 5-formyltetrahydrofolate since infancy.

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Figure. Genetic and Functional analysis of PCFT mutation
(A) Pedigree of the family with HFM. The filled symbols indicate the patient with both PCFT alleles mutated. The half-filled symbols indicate the parents with one normal and one mutated PCFT allele. (B) Chromatograms of sequenced PCFT genomic DNA showing the homozygous GC>AA mutations in the patient and the heterozygous GC>AA mutations in her parents. (C) Genomic organization of PCFT showing the location of the GC>AA mutations. (D) Functional analysis of the patient’s mutated and wild-type PCFT cDNA transiently transfected into a Hela cell line that lack both genomic reduced folate carrier and PCFT expression Uptake of 0.5 μM [H3]5-methyltetrahydrofolate was assessed over two minutes at pH 5.5 as previously described . (E) Northern blot analysis of mRNA obtained from the Hela cells transiently transfected with the patient’s mutated or wild-type PCFT mRNA. (F) Western Blot analysis of whole cell lysate from the cells described in Figure E. PCFT proteins were tagged with hemagglutinin epitope inserted in the C-terminus and the blot was probed with anti-hemagglutinin antibody.
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