PMID: 6159281Jan 1, 1980Paper

Preservation of red blood cells with purines and nucleosides. III. Synthesis of adenine, guanine, and hypoxanthine nucleotides

Folia haematologica : internationales Magazin für klinische und morphologische Blutforschung
D Strauss, C H de Verdier

Abstract

Purine nucleotides of fresh human red cells and of red cells during storage at 4 degrees and 25 degrees C with additions of adenine, guanine, guanosine and inosine were estimated by HPLC. Six nucleotides were found in red cells: ATP, ADP, AMP, GTP, GDP, and IMP. The adenine nucleotides represented 92 per cent of the total purine nucleotides, guanine nucleotides 7 per cent and IMP less than 1 per cent. In red cells stored with adenine the total concentration of purine nucleotides increased to 125 per cent of the normal value. An adenine-free but guanine and guanine + inosine containing medium caused a decrease of the concentration of purine nucleotides by 10 to 20 per cent. When red cells were stored without adding guanine or guanosine the content of the guanine nucleotides decreased from 0.32 to 0.17 mumol/g Hb due to the decrease in the GTP content, but the GDP concentration increased slightly. In CPD-AG blood, however, the concentration of guanine nucleotides increased considerably up to 0.6 mumol/g Hb. IMP was estimated in all investigated stored red cells. In CPD-A and in CPD-AG blood 0.4 mumol/g Hb were produced during 3 weeks of storage, but twice of that in CPD-AI blood. The principles of the synthesis and the degradatio...Continue Reading

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