Adenine nucleotide metabolism in relation to purine enzymes in liver, erythrocytes and cultured fibroblasts.

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
T S Shenoy, A J Clifford

Abstract

To evaluate the regulation of adenine nucleotide metabolism in relation to purine enzyme activities in rat liver, human erythrocytes and cultured human skin fibroblasts, rapid and sensitive assays for the purine enzymes, adenosine deaminase (EC 2.5.4.4), adenosine kinase (EC 2.7.1.20), hyposanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.28), adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.7) and 5'-nucleotidase (EC 3.1.3.5) were standardized for these tissues. Adenosine deaminase was assayed by measuring the formation of product, inosine (plus traces of hypoxanthine), isolated chromatographically with 95% recovery of inosine. The other enzymes were assayed by isolating the labelled product or substrate nucleotides as lanthanum salts. Fibroblast enzymes were assayed using thin-layer chromatographic procedures because the high levels of 5'-nucleotidase present in this tissue interferred with the formation of LaCl3 salts. The lanthanum and the thin-layer chromatographic methods agreed within 10%. Liver cell sap had the highest activities of all purine enzymes except for 5'-nucleotidase and adenosine deaminase which were highest in fibroblasts. Erythrocytes had lowest activities of all except for hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase which...Continue Reading

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