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Science 25 September 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4515, pp. 1517 - 1519
DOI: 10.1126/science.7280672
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Science, Vol 213, Issue 4515, 1517-1519
Copyright © 1981 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Adenosine triphosphate-deficient erythrocytes of the egg-laying mammal, echidna (tachyglossus aculeatus)

HD Kim, RB Zeidler, JD Sallis, SC Nichol, and RE Isaacks

The erythrocytes of the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), an egg-laying mammal, were examined for the presence of phosphorylated compounds. The erythrocytes contained only 0.03 +/- 0.01 micromoles of adenosine 5'-triphosphate per milliliter of cells. This amount is two orders of magnitude less than that in human cells. Although the echidna erythrocytes had an abundance of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate and other glycolytic intermediates, no other energy-rich pyridine and purine compounds were detected.




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