Purine excretion by mammalian cells defi
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Teh-Sheng Chan; Kazuhiro Ishii; Cedric Long; Howard Green
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Article
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1973
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract An adenosine kinaseless (AK^β^) mutant of the mouse fibroblast line 3T6 has been obtained in cell culture by evolution of resistance to 6βthioβmethylpurine ribonucleoside and tubercidin. The mutant excretes purines (xanthine and hypoxanthine) into the culture medium. Human or mouse cell