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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 12, 5596-5602, 04, 1987

Mechanisms of accelerated purine nucleotide synthesis in human fibroblasts with superactive phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetases

MA Becker, MJ Losman and M Kim

Concentrations and rates of synthesis of phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PP-Rib-P) and purine nucleotides were compared in fibroblasts cultured from 5 males with PP-Rib-P synthetase superactivity, 3 normal individuals, and 2 children with severe hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency. Although all cell strains with PP- Rib-P synthetase superactivity showed increased PP-Rib-P concentration and generation, increased rates of PP-Rib-P-dependent purine synthetic pathways, and increased purine and pyrimidine nucleoside triphosphate concentrations, two subgroups were discernible. Three fibroblast strains with isolated catalytic defects in PP-Rib-P synthetase showed milder increases in PP-Rib-P concentration (2.5-fold normal) and generation (1.6- to 2.1-fold) and in rates of purine synthesis de novo (1.6- to 2.2-fold) and purine nucleoside triphosphate pools (1.5-fold) than did cells from 2 individuals with combined kinetic defects in PP- Rib-P synthetase, both with purine nucleotide inhibitor-resistance. Values for these processes in the latter two strains were, respectively, 5- to 6-fold, 2.6- to 3.2-fold, 4- to 7-fold, and 1.7- to 2.2-fold those of normal cells. In contrast to cells with catalytic defects, these cells also excreted an abnormally high proportion of labeled purines and resisted purine base-mediated inhibition of PP-Rib- P and purine nucleotide synthesis. Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient cells showed normal regulation of PP-Rib-P synthesis and normal nucleoside triphosphate pools despite increased rates of purine synthesis de novo and of purine excretion. Cells with PP-Rib-P synthetase superactivity thus synthesize purine nucleotides at increased rates as a consequence of increased PP-Rib-P production, despite increased purine nucleotide concentrations. These and additional findings provide evidence that regulation of purine synthesis de novo is effected at both the PP-Rib-P synthetase and amidophosphoribosyltransferase reactions.
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