Nicotine adenine dinucleotide

Nicotine adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP+), 24 147 Nicotinic acid, 9 477-478 26 291 alkaloid precursor, 2 78 Ni-Cr alloys, 23 499. See also Nickel-chromium entries NiCrAlY coatings, 13 508 nido designation boranes, 4 184-186 boron hydrides, 4 170, 172-176 Nidrel, molecular formula and structure, 5 129t... 

NAD, nicotine adenine dinucleotide A biochemical that functions as a cellular electron carrier. 

On NMR monitoring of the reaction of nicotine adenine dinucleotide (NAD ), an important co-factor in enzymatic reactions, with 43 at pH 6, the formation of two unique diastereomeric cyclic trimeric metallacalixarene systems 49, in a self-assembly mode, was evident (1999JOM(589)66). These products have a narrow stability range at pH 6 and decompose at lower or higher pH. The complex 49 was neither electroactive nor it was possible to convert it to the corresponding NADH-based system (1999JOM(589)66). 

NADP(H) Nicotine Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate (reduced)... 

The mechanism of electron transfer reactions in metal complexes has been elucidated by -> Taube who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for these studies in 1983 [xiv]. Charge transfer reactions play an important role in living organisms [xv-xvii]. For instance, the initial chemical step in -> photosynthesis, as carried out by the purple bacterium R. sphaeroides, is the transfer of electrons from the excited state of a pair of chlorophyll molecules to a pheophytin molecule located 1.7 mm away. This electron transfer occurs very rapidly (2.8 ps) and with essentially 100% efficiency. Redox systems such as ubiquinone/dihydroubiquinone, - cytochrome (Fe3+/Fe2+), ferredoxin (Fe3+/Fe2+), - nicotine-adenine-dinucleotide (NAD+/NADH2) etc. have been widely studied also by electrochemical techniques, and their redox potentials have been determined [xviii-xix]. 

The energy for these reactions comes from the oxidation of nicotine-adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) to NADP and from the conversion of molecular oxygen to water. 

Jacobson, M. K Coyle, D, L-, Vu, C- Q Kim, H-, and Jacobson, E. L. (1W7). Preparation of cyclic ADP-ribose, 2 -phospho-cyclic ADP-ribose, and nicotinate adenine dinucleotide phosphate Possible second messengers of calcium signaling. Methods Enziftao . 280, Part J, 265-275. 

Nicotine adenine dinucleotide ( diphosphopyridine nucleotide ) appears to be necessary in this transformation, although none of the reduced form accumulates E. S. Maxwell, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 78, 1074 (1056) see also. Ref. 125. 

Metabolic activation of PAHs consists of an oxidation of the rings of unsubstituted PAHs. These oxidations are carried out by mixed function oxidases of the liver which contain cytochromes P450 and P448 and require reduced nicotine adenine dinucleotide and oxygen. In this oxidation, an epoxide intermediate is formed which has been shown to have the requisite chemical reactivity to bind covalently with DNA and histones and to serve as the ultimate carcinogenic form of PAH. Administration of 3-MC to rats increased hepatic nuclear proteins and caused a turnover of protein of the endoplasmic reticulum. Studies of " C amino acid incorporation showed that 3-MC causes increased protein synthesis and reduced degradation of protein. 

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