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. 1983 Dec;156(3):1001–1005. doi: 10.1128/jb.156.3.1001-1005.1983

Enzymes of pyrimidine deoxyribonucleotide metabolism in Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides.

G A Neale, A Mitchell, L R Finch
PMCID: PMC217942  PMID: 6139361

Abstract

Cell-free extracts of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides were assayed for enzymes associated with the salvage synthesis of pyrimidine deoxyribonucleotides. They possessed kinases for deoxycytidine, (d)CMP, thymidine (deoxyuridine), dTMP, and nucleoside diphosphates; dCTPase and dUTPase; dCMP deaminase; thymidine (deoxyuridine) phosphorylase; and dUMP (dTMP) phosphatase. The existence of these enzymic activities together with ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase explains the capacity of cytidine to provide M. mycoides with deoxyribose for the synthesis of thymidine nucleotides from thymine.

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