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Similarly, there is strong evidence that a deficit in bioenergetic support for neuron function is also a major genetic driver of PD. We show here that the reliance on these two purine-based metabolites intersect at another PD susceptibility gene that encodes nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDK) which converts ATP into GTP. We show that overexpression of NDK is strongly protective both in-vivo and in-vitro to metabolic lesions and identify mutations in NDK in humans associated both with increased risk and protection from PD. We discovered that NDK lies at the intersection of proper ATP production, de novo synthesis of guanosine diphosphate and the activity of GTP cyclohydrolase I, a consumptive pathway needed to produce the bioactive metabolite tetrahydrobiopterin (BH\n                  <jats:sub>4<\/jats:sub>\n                  ) required for mitochondrial function. 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