Abstract
Adenine uptake in cultured Chinese hamster fibroblasts showed biphasic saturation kinetics. The transport system was highly specific for adenine and was competitively inhibited by adenosine. Utilizing mutant clones of Chinese hamster fibroblasts that have either reduced or negligible adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT) activity, we found that (1) adenine was not accumulated against a concentration gradient in the absence of APRT activity and (2) after rapid initial uptake equal to that of the parent the rates of adenine accumulation found for the mutants correlated strongly with their residual APRT activities. Furthermore, using either artificially depressed phosphoribosylpyrophosphate pool size and APRT activities or the mutants with decreased APRT activity, we found that adenine transport was independent of phosphorylation by APRT. These studies suggest that adenine is transported as the free base by facilitated diffusion and is subsequently phosphorylated by APRT.
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