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Query: EC:2.4.2.8 (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase)
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Hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.8) from rat brain or human erytherocytes can be irreversibly inactivated by incubation with periodate-oxidized analogues of the enzyme products GMP or IMP. This inhibition is specific and directed against the product binding site of the enzyme. Inactivation is not produced by periodate-oxidized AMP or other aldehydes, for example periodate-oxidized glycerol. The inactivation is concomitant with the binding of the inhibitor to the enzyme protein. The bound inhibitor cannot be removed from the protein by dialysis, Sephadex chromatography or polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.7), on the other hand, is not influenced by any of the inhibitors mentioned above.
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PMID:Irreversible inactivation of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase by periodate oxidized nucleotides. 16 42

1. Total lipids, total cholesterol, cholesterol esters, phospholipids, triglycerides and free fatty acids as well as the fatty acids profiles of the different lipid classes were determined in serum, lipomatous and normal adipose tissue. Triglycerides were elevated in patient L's serum. The distribution of serum lipoproteins in this patient's serum showed a type IV according to Fredrickson. All other lipid parameters were within the normal range. Palmitoleic acid was increased nearly in all lipid fractions of the patients' sera as well as in the lipids of lipomatous subcutaneous adipose tissue. 2. The lipomatous adipose tissues of the patients showing no histological abnormalities revealed higher levels of cyclic AMP than normal subcutaneous adipose tissue. 3. Serum uric acid was normal (patient E.), between the normal and pathological range (patient L.) and elevated (patient W.). Urinary uric acid excretion was increased in all three patients. 4. 14C-glycine was overincorporated into urinary uric acid in all three patients. 5. Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase activities in the hemolysates were within the normal range. A decrease of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase activities could be demonstrated in two patients' (e., w.) erythrocytes. Erythrocyte phosphoribosylpyrophate synthetase activity was slightly increased in patient L.'s and twice the normal value in patient W.'s erythrocytes.
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PMID:[Biochemistry of benign-symmetrical lipomatosis (adenolipomatosis Launois-Bensaude, Madelung's disease)]. 18 73

Inactivation of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase caused by periodate-oxidized GMP is irreversible, even under the conditions of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and during affinity chromatography on GMP-Sepharose. Partial binding of the inhibitor to the enzyme protein can be demonstrated on dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis: The substrate, phosphoribosyl diphosphate in the presence of Mg2, and the product GMP protect the enzyme against inactivation. Periodate-oxidized GMP, AMP and oxidized purine nucleosides do not influence ribosephosphate pyrophosphokinase, 5'-nucleotidase, purine-nucleoside phosphorylase and guanylate kinase. A variety of other purine nucleosides and nucleotides, tested in their periodateoxidized form, do not lead to a compound comparable or superior to oxidized GMP in its effect on hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase. In an erythrocyte system it is clearly demonstrated that oxidized GMP cannot act across an intact cell membrane.
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PMID:Irreversible inhibition of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase. Further studies on the specificity of periodate-oxidized GMP. 20 May 44

A series of 2'-O-acyl derivatives of 6-thioinosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate (6-HS-cRMP) were prepared and examined for their cytotoxic effects on S49 mouse lymphoma cells which were deficient in hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRTase). Cytotoxicity increased with the lipophilicity of the acyl group to a lowest EC50 of 65 micrometer for the 2'-O-palmityl derivative. Addition of a mutation in the gene for cAMP-dependent protein kinase to the HGPRTase-deficient cell line confers resistance to 2'-O-butyryl-cAMP but not to 2'-O-butyryl-6-HS-cRMP, indicating that the latter does not exert its toxic effect via activation of protein kinase. The time course of cell kill by 2'-O-palmityl-6-HS-cRMP resembled that of 6-mercaptopurine and not that of cyclic AMP in these cells. The data suggest that the intact cyclic nucleotides are penetrating the cells and being converted, by phosphodiesterase action and deacylation, to the first toxic metabolite of 6-mercaptopurine, thioinosinic acid.
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PMID:2'-O-Acyl-6-thioinosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphates as prodrugs of thioinosinic acid. 22 58

The purine phosphoribosyltransferases of Crithidia fasciculata were identified and some of their properties described. The organism possesses three separate enzymes for the production of AMP, IMP, and GMP. The evidence for this comes from the observed differences in elution patterns from gel filtration columns, differences in heat sensitivity, and especially the clear separation of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase from guanine phosphoribosyltransferase by affinity chromatography on GMP-agarose. APRTase is activated most efficiently by Zn++, whereas HPRTase and GPRTase are activated most effectively by Co++. In no case did the product mononucleotides produce strong inhibition of the transferase activities.
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PMID:The purine phosphoribosyltransferases of Crithidia fasciculata. 51 49

Erythrocytes, obtained from a normal adult male and from a patient with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, were incubated with [8-14C]adenine and [8-14C]hypoxanthine (Table 1). The labeled adenine was utilized to about the same extent for the synthesis of AMP by the normal subject's and the patient's erythrocytes. Deamination of AMP to IMP occurred to about the same extent in both samples. In contrast, hypoxanthine was utilized extensively for IMP synthesis in the normal erythrocyte only. The amount of total label in the IMP was about 100 times that of the Lesch-Nyhan erythrocyte, a consequence of the deficiency of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT) activity in the syndrome. No significant labeling of the AMP occurred. When aliquots of erythrocytes from both sources were incubated with 4-amino-5-imidazolecarboxamide (AICA) and sodium [14C]formate, extensive labeling of the IMP occurred in normal and in Lesch-Nyhan erythrocytes. The data suggest that AICA serves as a substrate for the adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT) of the Lesch-Nyhan erythrocyte and that the ribotide of AICA, 5'-phosphoribosyl-5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide (AICAR), undergoes formylation by labeled N10-formyl tetrahydrofolic acid formed from the reaction of sodium [14C]formate with the tetrahydrofolic acid of the cell. The formyl-AICAR undergoes ring closure to IMP by a series of reactions comparable to those described for the normal erythrocyte. When 5-amino-1-ribosyl-4-imidazolecarboxamide (rAICA) and sodium [14C]formate were incubated with erythrocyte suspensions, extensive utilization for IMP synthesis was also observed in normal erythrocytes and in erythrocytes from Lesch-Nyhan patients (Table 2). The reaction sequence is somewhat different from that of AICA. AICA is not a substrate for the purine nucleoside phosphorylase of rabbit or human erythrocytes. The mechanism of rAICA utilization is visualized as a direct phosphorylation of the ribosyl compound, possibly by the adenosine kinase of the human cell. The ribotide, AICAR, formed by this mechanism, undergoes formylation and ring closure, yielding IMP. The glutamine antagonist, diazooxonorleucine (DON), was added to aliquots of patients' cells incubated with rAICA and sodium [14C]formate. DON is an effective inhibitor of the conversion of IMP to GMP and its presence in an incubation suspension resulted in a somewhat greater radioactivity of the total cellular IMP. The extension of the current studies to Lesch-Nyhan cells in culture may serve to assist in the direct evaluation of the regulatory role of IMP in the de novo pathway of purine nucleotide biosynthesis. Because of the substrate requirements of the reactions, the metabolism of AICA and rAICA may also serve to differentiate the roles of purine nucleotides and of phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PRPP) in the pathway regulation. The findings presented also offer a possible therapeutic approach to the early treatment of the disease in the afflicted neonate...
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PMID:Lesch-Nyhan syndrome: the synthesis of inosine 5'-phosphate in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient erythrocyte by alternate biochemical pathways. 87 Aug 76

Adenine and adenosine metabolism has been studied in intact human erythrocytes in vitro using high performance liquid chromatography, isotopic labeling and electrophoresis. Their metabolism to nucleotides was controlled by phosphoribose diphosphate synthesis which was phosphate dependent. Adenosine formed hypoxanthine or IMP depending upon Pi concentration, but adenosine kinase and deaminase activities were not affected by P levels. Free [14C]adenine and [14C]hypoxanthine were found in cellular extracts. Rapid interconversions occurred to give a distribution for ATP : ADP : AMP of 10 : 1 : 0.1. Marked decomposition of ATP to ADP and AMP occurred during incubations in plasma and Earle's media in air on nitrogen, but ATP levels remained stable in phosphate buffers and in the presence of oxygen. At physiological Pi (1 mM) adenosine kinase activity grossly exceeded adenine phosphoribosyltransferase activity. The latter was approximately 7 fold that of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase activity. These differences decreased with increasing Pi levels. No significant increase in corresponding nucleotides was obtained by incubation with high levels (0.5 mM) of adenine, guanine or guanosine at physiological Ii, ATP increased by 10% independently of the substrate employed and significant amounts of IMP and GTP were formed adenosine and guanosine, respectively. The existence of a bound intracellular pool of ATP is suggested.
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PMID:Studies on adenine and adenosine metabolism by intact human erythrocytes using high performance liquid chromatography. 94 98

Mutants of Chinese hamster ovary cells deficient in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (D-glucose-6-phosphate: NADP 1-oxidoreducatse, EC 1.1.1.49) activity were isolated after mutagenesis with ethyl methane sulfonate. The mutants were induced at frequencies of about 10-4 and do not differ in growth properties from wild-type cells. They were isolated by means of a sib selection technique coupled with a histochemical stain of colonies for enzyme activity. The lack of enzyme activity is not due to a dissociable inhibitor, and is recessive in hybrid cells. Multiple mutants that lack hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase activity (IMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.8) and adenine phosphoribosyltransferase activity (AMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.7) were isolated by further mutagenesis. By following segregation of wild-type phenotypes from heterozygous multiply marked hybrid cells, it was shown that the genes responsible for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase activity are linked in Chinese hamster cells, in agreement with the location of both on the X chromosome in humans. No linkage to adenosine phosphoribosyltransferase was found. The isolation of mutant cells carrying linked markers should prove useful for studying chromosomal events such as segregation, breakage, recombination, and X-chromosome reactivation.
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PMID:Isolation of mammalian cell mutants deficient in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity: linkage to hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase. 105 32

Evidence for derepression of the gene for hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT; IMP: pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.8) on the human inactive X chromosome was obtained in hybrids of mouse and human cells. The mouse cells lacked HPRT and were also deficient in adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT; AMP: pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase; EC2.4.2.7). The human female fibroblasts were HPRT-deficient as a consequence of a mutation on the active X but contained a normal HPRT gene on the inactive X. The two human X chromosomes were further distinguished by differences in morphology: the inactive X was morphologically normal while the active X included most of the long arm of autosome no. 1 translocated to the distal end of the X long arm. Forty-one hybrid clones were first isolated by selection for the presence of APRT; when these clones were selected for HPRT, six of them yielded derivatives having human HPRT with incidences of about 1 in 10-6 APRT-selected hybrid cells. The HPRT-positive derivatives contained a normal-appearing X chromosome indistinguishable from the inactive X of the parental human fibroblasts. The active X with the translocation was not found in any of the HPRT-positive hybrid cells. Human phosphoglycerokinase (ATP:3-phospho-D-glycerate 1-phosphotransferase. EC 2.7.2.3) and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (D-glucose 6-phosphate: NADP 1-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.49), which are specified by X-chromosomal loci, were not detected in the hybrids expressing HPRT even though they contained an apparently intact X chromosome. The observations are most simply explained by the infrequent, stable derepression of inactive X chromosome segments that include the HPRT locus but not the phosphoglycerokinase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase loci.
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PMID:Localized Derepression on the Human Inactive X Chromosone in Mouse-Human Cell Hybrids. 105 21

Permanent transfer of genetic information from chromosomes isolated from human diploid cells to recipient cells has been demonstrated. Human metaphase chromosomes were incubated with mouse A9 fibroblasts deficient in hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (IMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.8) and adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (AMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.7). Colonies of cells containing hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase appeared during growth in a selective medium. The hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase gene product in four independent colonies was identified as human donor species by both gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing; hence these colonies did not result from reversion of ta9 parental cells. Other X-linked human genes, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (D-glucose-6-phosphate:NAD(+) 1-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.49) and phosphoglycerate kinase (ATP:3-phospho-D-glycerate 1-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.2.3), were not expressed in these same colonies. Dissociation of expression of these X-linked genes probably results from chromosomal fragmentation during uptake, but other mechanisms have not been excluded.
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PMID:Human gene expression in rodent cells after uptake of isolated metaphase chromosomes. 105 70


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