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. 1968 Mar;107(1):63–67. doi: 10.1042/bj1070063

Changes in the activities of enzymes of the biosynthetic pathway of the nicotinamide nucleotides in rat mammary gland during the lactation cycle

A L Greenbaum 1, S Pinder 1,*
PMCID: PMC1198611  PMID: 4384466

Abstract

1. The activities of NMN pyrophosphorylase, NMN adenylyltransferase and NAD kinase in the mammary glands of rats at different stages of pregnancy, lactation and involution were measured. 2. NMN pyrophosphorylase has a low activity early in pregnancy, but its activity increases at parturition and in early lactation to reach a maximum at the tenth day of lactation, after which it remains constant until it declines abruptly in involution. 3. NMN adenylyltransferase is already quite active by the tenth day of pregnancy and its activity does not rise further in the second half of gestation. After a sharp rise in activity at parturition, the activity of the enzyme declines slowly throughout the period of lactation and, more sharply, in involution. 4. NAD kinase has a low activity for most of pregnancy, but its activity rises at parturition to a value at 2 days of lactation that is maintained until the tenth day. Between the tenth and fifteenth days of lactation the activity almost doubles, but falls sharply in mammary involution. 5. The relation of the activities of these enzymes to the rates of synthesis of NAD and NADP is discussed.

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