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Published in final edited form as: IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform. 2016 Jul 7;14(6):1434–1445. doi: 10.1109/TCBB.2016.2586065

Table III.

Enzymes in purine metabolism

Enzyme or reaction Abbreviation EC Number

Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase HGPRT 2.4.2.8
GMP synthetase GMPS 6.3.5.2
Adenylosuccinate lyase ASLI 4.3.2.2
GMP reductase GMPR 1.7.1.7
AMP deaminase AMPD 3.5.4.6
5’(3’) Nucleotidase 3NUC 3.1.3.31
Diribonucleotide reductase DRNR 1.17.4.1
Adenosine deaminase ADA 3.5.4.4
DNA polymerase DNAP 2.7.7.7
DNases DNAN #
Guanine hydrolase GUA 3.5.4.3
‘hypoxanthine excretion’ hx $
‘xanthine excretion' x $
`uric acid excretion' ua $
Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase PRPPS 2.7.6.1
Amidophosphoribosyltransferase ATASE 2.4.2.14
Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase APRT 2.4.2.7
`pyrimidine synthesis' PYRS #
IMP dehydrogenase IMPD 1.1.1.205
Adenylosuccinate synthetase ASUC 6.3.4.4
Methionine adenosyltransferase MAT 2.5.1.6
Protein O-methyltransferase MT 2.1.1.77, 2.1.1.80, and 2.1.1.100
S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase SAMD 4.1.1.50
5’-Nucleotidase 5NUC 3.1.3.5
RNA polymerase RNAP 2.7.7.6
RNases RNAN #
Xanthine oxidase or xanthine dehydrogenase XD 1.17.1.4 and 1.17.3.2
#

: Multiple enzymes.

$

: Non-enzymatic reaction.