title: Tetrahydro-6-biopterin is associated with tetrahydro-7-biopterin in primary murine mast cells.
abstract: Murine bone marrow-derived mast cells proliferate in response to interleukin 3. In addition to 6-biopterin, 7-biopterin was identified in these cells by HPLC analysis of iodine oxidized extracts and by alkaline permanganate oxidation to the 6- and 7-carboxylic acids. 7-Biopterin comprised 31.9 (+/- 7.7)% of the total biopterin. It was absent in cells which were grown with of L-p-chlorophenylalanine, an inhibitor of tryptophan 5-mono-oxygenase. Both 6- and 7-biopterin were present in the cell as their tetrahydro forms. From these data we conclude that 7-biopterin, in contrast to e.g. brain tissue, regularly occurs as a normal metabolite in primary mast cells and that it is generated during hydroxylation of tryptophan.
authors.affiliation: GSF-Institut für Klinische Molekularbiologie und Tumorgenetik, München, Germany.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ziegler
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hültner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001708:Biopterins / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D008407:Mast Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C
chemical_list: D001708:Biopterins; C076043:7-(1,2-dihydroxypropyl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrobiopterin; C003402:sapropterin