Discoveries of Nicotinamide Riboside as a Nutrient and Conserved NRK Genes Establish a Preiss-Handler Independent Route to NAD+ in Fungi and Humans

@article{Bieganowski2004DiscoveriesON,
  title={Discoveries of Nicotinamide Riboside as a Nutrient and Conserved NRK Genes Establish a Preiss-Handler Independent Route to NAD+ in Fungi and Humans},
  author={Pawel Bieganowski and Charles Brenner},
  journal={Cell},
  year={2004},
  volume={117},
  pages={495-502}
}

• Pawel Bieganowski, Charles Brenner
• Published 2004 in Cell
• DOI:10.1016/S0092-8674(04)00416-7

NAD+ is essential for life in all organisms, both as a coenzyme for oxidoreductases and as a source of ADPribosyl groups used in various reactions, including those that retard aging in experimental systems. Nicotinic acid and nicotinamide were defined as the vitamin precursors of NAD+ in Elvehjem's classic discoveries of the 1930s. The accepted view of eukaryotic NAD+ biosynthesis, that all anabolism flows through nicotinic acid mononucleotide, was challenged experimentally and revealed that… CONTINUE READING

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