Dietary-Induced Variation of Hypoxanthine-Guanine Phosphoribosyl Transferase Activity in Patients with the Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome

AUTOR(ES)

Arnold, William J.

RESUMO

We have studied three patients with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome to assess the effect of dietary purines on erythrocyte hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT) activity. During dietary purine restriction HGPRT activity rose in all three patients; resumption of normal dietary purine intake or the addition of adenine (10 mg/kg per day) to a purinefree diet resulted in a fall in HGPRT activity. These changes in enzyme activity appeared to be due to an activation or inactivation of the mutant enzyme without a change in the half-life or absolute amount of HGPRT enzyme protein.

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