Molecular cloning and functional reconstitution of a urate transporter/channel - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1997 Jan 3;272(1):617-25.

doi: 10.1074/jbc.272.1.617.

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Molecular cloning and functional reconstitution of a urate transporter/channel

E Leal-Pinto et al. J Biol Chem. 1997.

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Abstract

Maintenance of urate homeostasis requires urate efflux from urate-producing cells with subsequent renal and gastrointestinal excretion. The molecular basis for urate transport, however, has not been identified. A novel full-length cDNA encoding a 322-amino acid protein, designated UAT (urate transporter), has been cloned from a rat renal cDNA library by antibody screening. UAT mRNA transcripts that approximate 1.55 kilobases are present, but differentially expressed in various rat tissues. Recombinant UAT protein that was expressed from the cloned cDNA in Escherichia coli and purified via immobilized metal affinity chromatography has been functionally reconstituted as a highly selective urate transporter/channel in planar lipid bilayers. The IgG fraction of the polyclonal antibody that was used to select the UAT clone from the cDNA library, but not nonimmune IgG, blocked urate channel activity. Based on the wide tissue distribution of the mRNA for UAT we propose that UAT provides the molecular basis for urate flux across cell membranes, allowing urate that is formed during purine metabolism to efflux from cells and serving as an electrogenic transporter that plays an important role in renal and gastrointestinal urate excretion.

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