Abstract
AbstractMCT4 is an H+-coupled transporter expressed in metastatic cancer cells, macrophages, and other highly glycolytic cells, where it extrudes excess lactate generated by the Warburg phenomenon or by hypoxia. Intriguingly, its reported Kmfor lactate, obtained with pH-sensitive probes, is more than an order of magnitude higher than physiological lactate. Here we examined MCT4-rich MDA-MB-231 cells using the FRET sensor Laconic and found a median Kmfor lactate uptake of only 1.7 mM, while parallel estimation in the same cells with a pH probe gave a Kmof 27 mM. The median Kmof MCT4 for lactate was 0.7 mM in MCT4-expressing HEK293 cells and 1.2 mM in human macrophages, suggesting that high substrate affinity is a robust property of the transporter. Probed with the FRET sensor Pyronic, MCT4 showed a Kmfor pyruvate of only 4.2 mM in MDA-MB-231 cells, as opposed to > 150 mM reported previously. We conclude that prior estimates of MCT4 affinity based on pH probes were severely biased by the confounding action of pH regulatory mechanisms. Numerical simulation showed that MCT4, but not MCT1 or MCT2, endows cells with the capability of lactate extrusion in high lactate environments. The revised kinetic properties and novel transport assays may help in developing small-molecule MCT4 blockers for research and therapy.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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