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. 1987 Mar 1;242(2):551–558. doi: 10.1042/bj2420551

Adenine nucleotide metabolism in isolated chicken hepatocytes.

J Spychała, G Van den Berghe
PMCID: PMC1147740  PMID: 3593267

Abstract

The turnover of the adenine nucleotide pool, the pathway of the degradation of AMP and the occurrence of recycling of adenosine were investigated in isolated chicken hepatocytes, in which the adenylates had been labelled by prior incubation with [14C]adenine. Under physiological conditions, 85% of the IMP synthesized by the 'de novo' pathway (approx. 37 nmol/min per g of cells) was catabolized directly via inosine into uric acid, and 14% was converted into adenine nucleotides. The latter were found to turn over at the rate of approx. 5 nmol/min per g of tissue. Inhibition of adenosine deaminase by 1 microM-coformycin had no effect on the formation of labelled uric acid, indicating that the initial degradation of AMP proceeds by way of deamination rather than dephosphorylation. Inhibition of adenosine kinase by 100 microM-5-iodotubercidin resulted in a loss of labelled ATP, demonstrating that adenosine is normally formed from AMP but is recycled. Unexpectedly, 5-iodotubercidin did not decrease the total concentration of ATP, indicating that the loss of adenylates caused by inhibition of adenosine kinase was nearly completely compensated by formation of AMP de novo. Anoxia induced a greatly increased catabolism of the adenine nucleotide pool, which proceeded in part by dephosphorylation of AMP. On reoxygenation, the formation of AMP de novo was increased 8-fold as compared with normoxic conditions. The latter results indicate the existence of adaptive mechanisms in chick liver allowing, when required, channelling of the metabolic flux through the 'de novo' pathway, away from the uricotelic catabolic route, into the synthesis of adenine nucleotides.

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