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. 1968 Mar;107(1):55–62. doi: 10.1042/bj1070055

The pathway of biosynthesis of nicotinamide–adenine dinucleotide in rat mammary gland

A L Greenbaum 1, S Pinder 1,*
PMCID: PMC1198610  PMID: 4296054

Abstract

1. The pathway of NAD synthesis in mammary gland was examined by measuring the activities of some of the key enzymes in each of the tryptophan, nicotinic acid and nicotinamide pathways. 2. In the tryptophan pathway, 3-hydroxyanthranilate oxidase and quinolinate transphosphoribosylase activities were investigated. Neither of these enzymes was found in mammary gland. 3. In the nicotinic acid pathway, nicotinate mononucleotide pyrophosphorylase, NAD synthetase, nicotinamide deamidase and NMN deamidase were investigated. Both NAD synthetase and nicotinate mononucleotide pyrophosphorylase were present but were very inactive. Nicotinamide deamidase, if present, had a very low activity and NMN deamidase was absent. 4. In the nicotinamide pathway both enzymes, NMN pyrophosphorylase and NMN adenylyltransferase, were present and showed very high activity. The activity of the pyrophosphorylase in mammary gland is by far the highest yet found in any tissue. 5. The apparent Km values for the substrates of these enzymes in mammary gland were determined. 6. On the basis of these investigations it is proposed that the main, and probably only, pathway of synthesis of NAD in mammary tissue is from nicotinamide via NMN.

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