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The purine nucleoside phosphorylase pnp-1 regulates epithelial cell resistance to infection in C. elegans.

PLoS Pathogens, 2021
Intestinal epithelial cells are subject to attack by a diverse array of microbes, including intracellular as well as extracellular pathogens. While defense in epithelial cells can be triggered by pattern recognition receptor-mediated detection of microbe-
Eillen Tecle, Crystal B Chhan, Latisha Franklin, Ryan S Underwood, Wendy Hanna-Rose, Emily R Troemel   +5 more
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Purine nucleoside phosphorylase enables dual metabolic checkpoints that prevent T cell immunodeficiency and TLR7-associated autoimmunity

The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2022
Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) enables the breakdown and recycling of guanine nucleosides. PNP insufficiency in humans is paradoxically associated with both immunodeficiency and autoimmunity, but the mechanistic basis for these outcomes is ...
Evan R. Abt, Khalid Rashid, Thuc M. Le, Suwen Li, Hailey R. Lee, Vincent Lok, Luyi Li, Amanda L. Creech, Amanda N. Labora, Hanna K. Mandl, Alex K. Lam, Arthur Cho, Valerie Rezek, Nanping Wu, Gabriel Abril-Rodriguez, Ethan W. Rosser, Steven D. Mittelman, Willy Hugo, Thomas Mehrling, Shanta Bantia, Antoni Ribas, Timothy R. Donahue, Gay M. Crooks, Ting-Ting Wu, Caius G. Radu   +24 more
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Efficient Synthesis of Purine Nucleoside Analogs by a New Trimeric Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase from Aneurinibacillus migulanus AM007

Molecules, 2019
Purine nucleoside phosphorylases (PNPs) are promising biocatalysts for the synthesis of purine nucleoside analogs. Although a number of PNPs have been reported, the development of highly efficient enzymes for industrial applications is still in high ...
Gaofei Liu, Tiantong Cheng, Jianlin Chu, Sui Li, Bingfang He   +4 more
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Functional and Structural Characterization of Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase from Kluyveromyces lactis and Its Potential Applications in Reducing Purine Content in Food. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Consumption of foods and beverages with high purine content increases the risk of hyperuricemia, which causes gout and can lead to cardiovascular, renal, and other metabolic disorders.
Durga Mahor, Anu Priyanka, Gandham S Prasad, Krishan Gopal Thakur   +3 more
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Polymorphisme de la purine nucléoside phosphorylase érythrocytaire bovine [PDF]

Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 1984
La distribution de variants électrophorétiques de la purine nucléoside phosphorylase (N.P.) contrôlée par deux allèles NP.H et NP.L a été étudiée sur des hémolysats bovins appartenant à des populations autochtones de zébus ou de taurins (race Baoulé) et ...
R. Quéval, L. Bambara
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Purine nucleoside phosphorylase inhibition ameliorates age-associated lower urinary tract dysfunctions

JCI Insight, 2020
In the aging population, lower urinary tract (LUT) dysfunction is common and often leads to storage and voiding difficulties classified into overlapping symptom syndromes.
Lori A. Birder, Amanda Wolf-Johnston, Alan J. Wein, Fangzhou Cheng, Mara Grove-Sullivan, Anthony J. Kanai, Alan M. Watson, Donna Stoltz, Simon C. Watkins, Anne M. Robertson, Diane Newman, Roger R. Dmochowski, Edwin K. Jackson   +12 more
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Structural determinants of the 5'-methylthioinosine specificity of Plasmodium purine nucleoside phosphorylase. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Plasmodium parasites rely upon purine salvage for survival. Plasmodium purine nucleoside phosphorylase is part of the streamlined Plasmodium purine salvage pathway that leads to the phosphorylysis of both purines and 5'-methylthiopurines, byproducts of ...
Teraya M Donaldson, Li-Min Ting, Chenyang Zhan, Wuxian Shi, Renjian Zheng, Steven C Almo, Kami Kim   +6 more
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Purine nucleoside phosphorylase targeted by annexin v to breast cancer vasculature for enzyme prodrug therapy. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The targeting of therapeutics is a promising approach for the development of new cancer treatments that seek to reduce the devastating side effects caused by the systemic administration of current drugs.
John J Krais, Olivier De Crescenzo, Roger G Harrison   +2 more
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Purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency in two unrelated Saudi patients

Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2009
Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder that results in combined immunodeficiency, neurologic dysfunction and autoimmunity.
Alangari Abdullah, Al-Harbi Abdullah, Al-Ghonaium Abdulaziz, Santisteban Ines, Hershfield Michael   +4 more
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Enzymatic Synthesis of Highly Fluorescent 8-Azapurine Ribosides Using a Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase Reverse Reaction: Variable Ribosylation Sites

Molecules, 2013
Various forms of purine-nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) were used as catalysts of enzymatic ribosylation of selected fluorescent 8-azapurines. It was found that the recombinant calf PNP catalyzes ribosylation of 2,6-diamino-8-azapurine in a phosphate-free
Goran Mikleušević, Alicja Stachelska-Wierzchowska, Beata Wielgus-Kutrowska, Jacek Wierzchowski   +3 more
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