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. 1979 Jul;25(1):98–102. doi: 10.1128/iai.25.1.98-102.1979

Use of HeLa cell guanine nucleotides by Chlamydia psittaci.

M M Ceballos, T P Hatch
PMCID: PMC414426  PMID: 478649

Abstract

Exogenous guanine was found to be incorporated into the nucleic acids of Chlamydia psittaci when the parasite was grown in HeLa cells containing hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.8) activity but not when the parasite was grown in transferase-deficient HeLa cells. No evidence for a chlamydia-specific transferase activity was found in either transferase-containing or transferase-deficient infected HeLa cells. It is concluded that C. psittaci is incapable of metabolizing guanine, but that the parasite can use host-generated guanine nucleotides as precursors for nucleic acid synthesis.

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