reviewSignal Transduction and Targeted TherapyOct 7, 2020GOLD OA

NAD+ metabolism: pathophysiologic mechanisms and therapeutic potential

Sichuan University · State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy · +7 more institutions

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Abstract

Abstract Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD + ) and its metabolites function as critical regulators to maintain physiologic processes, enabling the plastic cells to adapt to environmental changes including nutrient perturbation, genotoxic factors, circadian disorder, infection, inflammation and xenobiotics. These effects are mainly achieved by the driving effect of NAD + on metabolic pathways as enzyme cofactors transferring hydrogen in oxidation-reduction reactions. Besides, multiple NAD + -dependent enzymes are involved in physiology either by post-synthesis chemical modification of DNA, RNA and proteins, or releasing second messenger cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) and NAADP + . Prolonged disequilibrium of…

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