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Purine biosynthesis was studied in 8 mutants of Chinese hamster cells which require purines for growth and in wild-type cells which do not show this nutritional requirement. Of these, 6 mutants, ade −B, ade−D, ade−E, ade−F, GAT−, and AT−, were shown to accumulate metabolic intermediates not accumulated by wild-type cells. These intermediates were shown to be compounds unique to the adenylic acid biosynthetic pathway by the following criteria: (a) their radioisotopic labeling properties, (b) their response to agents which specifically inhibit known enzymatic steps in the pathway, (c) their chromatographic properties, and (d) spectrophotometric analysis. Two mutants, ade−A and ade−C, accumulate no detectable compounds not accumulated by the wild type. These 2 mutants are believed to be defective in steps very early in the purine biosynthetic pathway. The sites of the defects in the other mutants are proposed, and the usefulness of these mutants is discussed.
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Patterson, D. Biochemical genetics of Chinese hamster cell mutants with deviant purine metabolism: Biochemical analysis of eight mutants. Somat Cell Mol Genet 1, 91–110 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01538734
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