Abstract
1. Isolated chick lymphoid cells, together with isolated chick liver and kidney cells, incorporate [1-14C]glycine or [14C]formate into urate. 2. Of the cell types used, bursal cells incorporate 14C into urate at the fastest rate, although the output of total urate by bursal cells is only 10% that of liver cells. 3. When suspended in Eagle's medium the incorporation of 14C into urate is inhibited by adenine and guanine up to 1 mM. In contrast, the addition of 1 mM-AMP or -GMP results in a relatively large stimulation of this incorporation. 4. Added adenine is rapidly taken up by liver cells and then released in an unmetabolized form; AMP is taken up more slowly and is rapidly metabolized. The metabolites (possibly including adenine) are then released. 5. Intracellular liver 5-phosphoribosyl 1-pyrophosphate is approx. 0.7mM and remains constant or falls slightly during a 3 h incubation of the cells. 6. The addition of adenine or guanine, AMP or GMP, does not alter liver intracellular 5-phosphoribosyl 1-pyrophosphate concentrations. Added 5-phosphoribosyl 1-pyrophosphate is not taken up by liver cells. 7. The results are discussed in the context of the control of urate and purine synthesis de novo in the chick.
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