Definition: a ribosyltransferase that reversibly catalyzes the phosphorolysis of a purine nucleoside with orthophosphate to produce a purine and a-d-ribose 1-phosphate; an inherited deficiency of this enzyme leads to cellular immunodeficiency.
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