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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2018 Oct;13(10):2362–2386. doi: 10.1038/s41596-018-0042-5

Table 2 |.

Cytosolic and mitochondrial-free NADPH, NADP+, NADPH/NADP+ ratio, NADH, NAD+, and NADH/NAD+ ratio in mammalian cells.

Cytosol Mitochondria reference
NADPH ~3.1 μM ~37 μM 8
NADP+ ~9.3–200 nM ~185 nM a
NADPH/NADP+ ratio 15–333 200 9,31,39
NADH ~0.12 μM ~30 μM 24
NAD+ ~106 μM ~230 μM 37
NADH/NAD+ ratio 0.001–0.0167 0.1–0.25 23,57
a

Cytosolic and mitochondrial-free NADP+ was calculated from the free NADPH level8 and free NADP+/NADPH ratio9,31,39 in mammalian cells.