Enzymes of the Purine Nucleotide Cycle in Muscles from Normal and Dystrophic Chickens

Abstract

Summary

The tissue levels of the enzymes involved in the proposed purine nucleotide cycle in muscle, adenylosuccinate synthetase and lyase and adenylate deaminase, have been determined in the sartorius and breast muscles of normal and genetically dystrophic chickens. The deaminase and synthetase levels in the breast decrease while the lyase levels rise.