Purine salvage (HGPRT)

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Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase recycles purine bases to nucleotides. Deficiency → Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (hyperuricemia, self-mutilation).

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Nucleotide salvage

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