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MUTANTS of the genes ade12 and ade13 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae require adenine, which suggests that they are defective in the conversion of inosine monophosphate (IMP) to adenosine monophosphate (AMP). Two enzymes are required for this conversion: adenylosuccinate lyase and adenylosuccinate synthetase. The former has been shown to be absent in mutants of ade13 (ref. 1) so that one can infer that ade12 specifies the latter. Mutants of ade12 have been isolated on the basis of an adenine insensitive pigment accumulation by strains carrying ade1 or ade2 (refs. 1 and 2). They seem to synthesize purines constitutively and excrete hypoxanthine1. These observations suggest that in addition to its catalytic function adenylosuccinate synthetase has an important function in the regulation of purine synthesis.
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LOMAX, C., WOODS, R. Prototrophic Regulatory Mutants of Adenylosuccinate Synthetase in Yeast. Nature New Biology 229, 116 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio229116a0
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