Metabolism of extracellular adenine nucleotides and adenosine uptake by rat thymocytes; the effect of concanavalin A

Dmitrenko, N.P.; Goroshnikova, G.V.

Ukrainskii Biokhimicheskii Zhurnal 59(2): 61-65

1987


ISSN/ISBN: 0201-8470
PMID: 3495059
Document Number: 300359
Thymocytes under cultivation conditions are established to catabolyze rapidly extracellular ATP and AMP which do not penetrate through the plasma membrane. Thymocytes uptake adenosine produced from adenosine nucleotides. Concanavalin A inhibits the extracellular hydrolysis of AMP and adenosine uptake by thymocytes.

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