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YLR209c encodes Saccharomyces cerevisiae purine nucleoside phosphorylase
K Lecoq1, I Belloc, C Desgranges
1Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, CNRS UMR5095, F-33077 Bordeaux Cedex, France.
Journal of Bacteriology
|July 24, 2001
Abstract:
The yeast YLR209c (PNP1) gene encodes a protein highly similar to purine nucleoside phosphorylases. This protein specifically metabolized inosine and guanosine. Disruption of PNP1 led to inosine and guanosine excretion in the medium, thus showing that PNP1 plays an important role in the metabolism of these purine nucleosides in vivo.