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Purine transport by Malpighian tubules of pteridine-deficient eye color mutants of Drosophila melanogaster by David T. Sullivan; L. Anne Bell; Duncan R. Paton; Marie C. Sullivan is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.

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Uptakes of guanine into Malpighian tubules of wild-type Drosophila and the eye color mutants white (w), brown (bw), and pink-peach (pp) have been compared. Tubules for each of these mutants are unable to concentrate guanine intracellularly. The transport of xanthine and riboflavin is also deficient in w tubules. The transport of guanosine, adenine, hypoxanthine, and guanosine monophosphate is similar in wild-type and white Malpighian tubules. These data and other information about these mutants make it likely that these pteridine-deficient eye color mutants do not produce pigments because of the inability to transport a pteridine precursor. This view supports the hypothesis that mutants which lack both pteridine and ommochromes do so because precursors to both classes of pigments share a common transport system.

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Author

David T. Sullivan; L. Anne Bell; Duncan R. Paton; Marie C. Sullivan

Publisher

Springer; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 0006-2928)

Published

1979

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)