Genetic studies of purine breakdown in t
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James R. Kinghorn; Rudolf Fluri
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Article
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1984
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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Purines such as hypoxanthine, xanthine, uric acid, allantoin and allantoic acid serve as sole nitrogen sources for the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. A number of classes of mutants unable to use purines have been isolated and genetically analysed. Mutants in the urol gene lack uricase, alll lack a