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In avian thtorabocytes, like in mammalian blood plateleta the adenine nucleotides
are present in three distinguishable compartments. For studies of
adenine nucleotide metabolic pool the turkey thrombocytes were prelabeled with
3 H-adenine. The level of metabolic nucleotides' was follewed by measuring
their total radioactivity. Part of the metabolic adenine nucleotide pool was
not gextracted by 50% ethanol. This ethanol-insoluble fraction (about 5 nmol/10 thrombocytes) represents adenine nucleotides bound to F-actin.