Overproduction of adenine deoxynucleosides and deoxynucleotides in adenosine deaminase deficiency with severe combined immunodeficiency disease

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The deoxynucleotide, dATP, is elevated 50- to 1,000-fold above normal in erythrocytes, lymphocytes, and bone marrow from a child with adenosine deaminase deficiency and severe combined immunodeficiency disease. The child, when 17 mo of age, was also excreting ~ 30 mg of deoxyadenosine per day in urine (normal is <0.1 mg/day). Urinary excretion of uric acid was decreased. Elevated dATP levels in lymphocytes and bone marrow, and increased urinary excretion of deoxyadenosine, persisted despite hypertransfusion of the child with irradiated erythrocytes from a donor with normal adenosine deaminase. Overproduction of deoxynucleotides by increased salvage of adenosine appears to be the primary metabolic abnormality in patients with adenosine deaminase deficiency.

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Donofrio, J., Coleman, M. S., Hutton, J. J., Daoud, A., Lampkin, B., & Dyminski, J. (1978). Overproduction of adenine deoxynucleosides and deoxynucleotides in adenosine deaminase deficiency with severe combined immunodeficiency disease. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 62(4), 884–887. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI109201

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