Purine Salvage
- Glycolysis
- Citric Acid Cycle (TCA Cycle)
- Electron Transport Chain (ETC)
- Cori Cycle
- De Novo Purine Synthesis
- De Novo Pyrimidine Synthesis
- Purine Salvage
- Purine Excretion
- Ethanol Metabolism
- Pyruvate Metabolism
- HMP Shunt (Pentose Phosphate Pathway)
- Galactose Metabolism
- Sorbitol (Polyol) Pathway
- Urea Cycle
- Alanine (Cahill) Cycle
- Catecholamine Synthesis & Breakdown
- Homocysteine Metabolism
- Fatty Acid Synthesis (Citrate Shuttle)
- Fatty Acid Breakdown (Carnitine Shuttle)
- Propionic Acid Pathway
- Fructose Metabolism
- Regulation by Fructose-2,6-Bisphosphate (F-2,6-BP)
- Glycogenesis
- Glycogenolysis
Purine Salvage is a biochemical pathway that recycles partially degraded purine bases to reform purine nucleotides.
Purine salvage begins with the free nitrogenous bases, hypoxanthine and guanine. Guanine combines with PRPP to form GMP, whereas Hypoxanthine combines with PRPP to form IMP. IMP can then be interconverted with AMP. Therefore, salvage of AMP occurs through hypoxanthine.
Both salvage reactions with PRPP are catalyzed by HGPRT (hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase). Notably, Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome is caused by a defect of HGPRT and impairs purine salvage.
A less common purine salvage pathway begins with adenine, since adenine is not usually produced by purine degradation. Adenine combines with PRPP to form AMP, in a reaction catalyzed by APRT (adenine phosphoribosyltransferase).
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