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Human Molecular Genetics, Vol 5, 1607-1610, Copyright © 1996 by Oxford University Press

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HPRT-APRT-deficient mice are not a model for lesch-nyhan syndrome

SJ Engle, DE Womer, PM Davies, G Boivin, A Sahota, HA Simmonds, PJ Stambrook and JA Tischfield
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202-5251, USA.

Complete hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl-transferase (HPRT) deficiency in humans results in the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome which is characterized, among other features, by compulsive self-injurious behavior. HPRT-deficient mice generated using mouse embryonic stem cells exhibit none of the behavioral symptoms associated with the Lesch- Nyhan syndrome. Administration of drugs that inhibit adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT) in HPRT-deficient mice has produced the suggestion that deficiency of APRT in combination with HPRT- deficiency in mice may lead to self-mutilation behavior [C.L. Wu and D.W. Melton (1993) Nature Genet. 3, 235-240]. To test this proposition, we bred HPRT-APRT-deficient mice. Although the doubly-deficient mice excrete adenine and its highly insoluble derivative, 2,8- dihydroxyadenine, which are also associated with human APRT deficiency, additional abnormalities or any self-injurious behavior were not detected. Thus, APRT-HPRT-deficient mice, which are devoid of any purine salvage pathways, show no novel phenotype and are not a model for the behavioral abnormalities associated with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome as previously suggested.
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