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The relationship between nucleoside triphosphate pyrophosphohydrolast (NTPH) (EC 3.6.1.19) activity in erythrocyte lysates and accumulation of radioactive inosine triphosphate (ITP) in human erythrocytes incubated in vitro with [14C]hypoxanthine, was studied in 93 humans. When ITP accumulation, expressed as percentage of total radioactive nucleotides, was plotted against NTPH specific activity, an inverse relationship was found to exist. A continous spectrum of NTPH specific activities and ITP accumulation values exists in the human population and the relationship between these two parameters follows the relationship of substrate concentration to enzyme activity predicted by Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics. One interpretation of these data is that the ITP concentration in human red blood cells is controlled by the degradation of ITP to IMP and pyrophosphate catalyzed by NTPH.
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