Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase: characteristics of the mutant enzyme in erythrocytes from patients with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

The Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is characterized clinically by choreoathetosis, spasticity, selfmutilation, and mental and growth retardation. Biochemically, there is a striking reduction of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT) activity in affected individuals. We have examined erythrocyt...

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Hauptverfasser: William J. Arnold, Jean C. Meade, William N. Kelley
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 1972
Online-Zugang:https://doi.org/10.1172/jci106982
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