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Nicotinamide_adenine_dinucleotide

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

Other names

Diphosphopyridine nucleotide (DPN⁺), Coenzyme I

Identifiers

CAS number

53-84-9

PubChem

925

KEGG

C00003

ChEBI

13389

SMILES

C1=CC(=C[N+](=C1)C2 C(C(C(O2)COP(=O)([O-])OP(=O) (O)OCC3C(C(C(O3)N4C=NC5=C 4N=CN=C5N)O)O)O)O)C(=O)N

Properties

Molecular formula

C₂₁H₂₇N₇O₁₄P₂

Molar mass

663.425

Appearance

White powder

Melting point

160 °C

Hazards

Main hazards

Not hazardous

NFPA 704

RTECS number

UU3450000

Except where noted otherwise, data are given for
materials in their standard state
(at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox disclaimer and references

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, abbreviated NAD⁺, is a coenzyme found in all living cells. The compound is a dinucleotide, since it consists of two nucleotides joined through their phosphate groups: with one nucleotide containing an adenosine ring, and the other containing nicotinamide.

In metabolism, NAD⁺ is involved in redox reactions, carrying electrons from one reaction to another. The coenzyme is therefore found in two forms in cells: NAD⁺ is an oxidizing agent – it accepts electrons from other molecules and becomes reduced, this reaction forms NADH, which can then be used as a reducing agent to donate electrons. These electron transfer reactions are the main function of NAD⁺. However, it is also used in other cellular processes, notably as a substrate of enzymes that add or remove chemical groups from proteins, in posttranslational modifications. Due to the importance of these functions, the enzymes involved in NAD⁺ metabolism are targets for drug discovery.

In organisms, NAD⁺ can be synthesized from scratch (de novo) from the amino acids tryptophan or aspartic acid. Alternatively, components of the coenzymes are taken up from food as the vitamin called niacin. Similar compounds are released by reactions that break down the structure of NAD⁺. These preformed components then pass through a salvage pathway that recycles them back into the active form. Some NAD⁺ is also converted into nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP⁺); this related coenzyme has similar chemistry to NAD⁺, but has different roles in metabolism.

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1 Physical and chemical properties
2 Concentration and state in cells
3 Biosynthesis
- 3.1 De novo production
- 3.2 Salvage pathways
4 Functions
5 Pharmacology
6 History
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading

Physical and chemical properties

Further information: Redox

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide is a dinucleotide since it consists of two nucleotides joined by a pair of bridging phosphate groups. The nucleotides consist of ribose rings, one with adenine attached to the first carbon atom (the 1' position) and the other with nicotinamide at this position. The nicotinamide group can be attached in two orientations to this anomeric carbon atom, due to these two possible structures, the compound exists as two diastereomers. It is the β-nicotinamide diastereomer of NAD⁺, found in organisms. These nucleotides are joined together by a bridge of two phosphate groups through the 5' carbons.^[1]

In metabolism the compound accepts or donates electrons in redox reactions.^[2] Such reactions (summarized in formula below) involve the removal of two hydrogen atoms from the reactant (R), in the form of a hydride ion, and a proton (H⁺). The proton is released into solution, while the reductant RH₂ is oxidized and NAD⁺ reduced to NADH by transfer of the hydride.

RH₂ + NAD⁺ → NADH + H⁺ + R

From the hydride electron pair, one electron is transferred to the positively-charged nitrogen of the nicotinamide ring of NAD⁺, and the second hydrogen atom transferred to the carbon atom opposite this nitrogen. The midpoint potential of the NAD⁺/NADH redox pair is −0.32 volts, which makes NADH a strong reducing agent.^[3] The reaction is easily reversible, when NADH reduces another molecule and is re-oxidized to NAD⁺. This means the coenzyme can continuously cycle between the NAD⁺ and NADH forms without being consumed.^[1]

In appearance, all forms of this coenzyme are white amorphous powders that are hygroscopic and highly water-soluble.^[4] The solids are stable if stored dry and in the dark. Solutions of NAD⁺ are colorless and stable for about a week at 4 °C and neutral pH, but decompose rapidly in acids or alkalis. Upon decomposition, they form products that are enzyme inhibitors.^[5] Both NAD⁺ and NADH absorb strongly in the ultraviolet due to the adenine base. For example, peak absorption of NAD⁺ is at a wavelength of 259 nanometers (nm), with an extinction coefficient of 16,900 M^-1cm^-1. NADH also absorbs at higher wavelengths, with a second peak in UV absorption at 339 nm with an extinction coefficient of 6,220 M^-1cm^-1.^[6] This difference in the ultraviolet absorption spectra between the oxidized and reduced forms of the coenzymes at higher wavelengths makes it simple to measure the conversion of one to another in enzyme assays – by measuring the amount of UV absorption at 340 nm using a spectrophotometer.^[6]

NAD⁺ and NADH also differ in their fluorescence. NADH in solution has an emission peak at 460 nm and a fluorescence lifetime of 0.4 nanoseconds, while the oxidized form of the coenzyme does not fluoresce.^[7] The properties of the fluorescence signal changes when NADH binds to proteins, so these changes can be used to measure dissociation constants, which are useful in the study of enzyme kinetics.^[7]^[8] These changes in fluorescence are also used to measure changes in the redox state of living cells, through fluorescence microscopy.^[9]

Concentration and state in cells

In rat liver, the total amount of NAD⁺ and NADH is approximately 1 μmole per gram of wet weight, about 10 times the concentration of NADP⁺ and NADPH in the same cells.^[10] The actual concentration of NAD⁺ in cell cytosol is harder to measure, with recent estimates in animal cells, ranging around 0.3 mM,^[11]^[12] and approximately 1.0 to 2.0 mM in yeast.^[2] However, over 80% is bound to proteins, so the concentration in solution is much lower.^[13]

Data for other compartments in the cell are limited, although, in the mitochondrion the concentration of NAD⁺ is similar to that in the cytosol.^[12] This NAD⁺ is carried into the mitochondrion by a specific membrane transport protein, since the coenzyme cannot diffuse across membranes.^[14]

The balance between the oxidized and reduced forms of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide is called the NAD⁺/NADH ratio. This ratio is an important component of what is called the redox state of a cell, a measurement that reflects both the metabolic activities and the health of cells.^[15] The effects of the NAD⁺/NADH ratio are complex, controling the activity of several key enzymes, including glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase and pyruvate dehydrogenase.^[16] In healthy mammalian tissues, estimates of the NAD⁺/NADH ratio range around 1, so the concentrations of NAD⁺ and NADH are roughly comparable.^[16] In contrast, the NADP⁺/NADPH ratio is normally about 0.005, around 200 times lower than the NAD⁺/NADH ratio, so NADPH is the dominant form of this coenzyme.^[17] These different ratios are key to the different metabolic roles of NADH and NADPH.

Biosynthesis

NAD⁺ is synthesized through two metabolic pathways. It is produced either in a de novo pathway from amino acids, or in salvage pathways by recycling preformed components such as nicotinamide back to NAD⁺.

De novo production

Most organisms synthesize NAD⁺ from simple components.^[2] The specific set of reactions differs among organisms, but a common feature is the generation of quinolinic acid (QA) from an amino acid - either tryptophan (Trp) in animals and some bacteria, or aspartic acid in some bacteria and plants.^[18] The quinolinic acid is converted to nicotinic acid mononucleotide (NaMN) by transfer of a phosphoribose group. An adenylate group is then transferred to form nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide (NaAD). Finally, the nicotinic acid group in NaAD is amidated to a nicotinamide (Nam) group, forming nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.^[2]

In a further step, some NAD⁺ is converted into NADP⁺ by NAD+ kinase, which phosphorylates NAD⁺.^[19] In most organisms, this enzyme uses ATP as the source of the phosphate group, although in bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and in archaea such as Pyrococcus horikoshii, inorganic polyphosphate is an alternative phosphate donor.^[20]^[21]

Salvage pathways

Besides assembling NAD⁺ de novo from simple amino acid precursors, cells also salvage preformed compounds containing nicotinamide. Although other precursors are known, the three natural compounds containing the nicotinamide ring and used in these salvage metabolic pathways are nicotinic acid (Na), nicotinamide (Nam) and nicotinamide riboside (NR).^[22] The precursors are fed into the NAD(P)⁺ biosynthetic pathway, shown above, through adenylation and phosphoribosylation reactions.^[2] These compounds are can be taken up from the diet, where the mixture of nicotinic acid and nicotinamide are called vitamin B₃ or niacin. However, these compounds are also produced within cells, when the nicotinamide group is released from NAD⁺ in ADP-ribose transfer reactions. Indeed, the enzymes involved in these salvage pathways appear to be concentrated in the cell nucleus, which may compensate for the high level of reactions that consume NAD⁺ in this organelle.^[23]

Despite the presence of the de novo pathway, the salvage reactions are essential in humans; a lack of niacin in the diet causes the vitamin deficiency disease pellagra.^[24] This high requirement for NAD⁺ results from the constant consumption of the coenzyme in reactions such as posttranslational modifications, since the cycling of NAD⁺ between oxidized and reduced forms in redox reactions does not change the overall levels of the coenzyme.^[2]

The salvage pathways used in microorganisms differ from those of mammals.^[25] For example, some pathogens, such as the yeast Candida glabrata and the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae are NAD⁺ auxotrophs - they cannot synthesize NAD⁺ and are dependent on salvage pathways.^[26]^[27] Even more surprizing is the intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis, which lacks recognizable candidates for any genes involved in the salvage or biosynthesis of both NAD⁺ and NADP⁺, and may instead salvage these coenzymes from its host.^[28]

Functions

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide has several essential roles in metabolism. It acts as a coenzyme in redox reactions, as a donor of ADP-ribose groups in ADP-ribosylation reactions, as a precursor of the second messenger molecule cyclic ADP-ribose, as well as acting as a substrate for bacterial DNA ligases and a group of enzymes called sirtuins that use NAD⁺ to remove acetyl groups from proteins.

Oxidoreductases

Further information: Protein structure and Oxidoreductases

The main role of NAD⁺ in metabolism is the transfer of electrons from one redox reaction to another. This type of reaction are catalyzed by a large group of enzymes called oxidoreductases. The correct names for these enzymes contain the names of both their substrates: for example NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase catalyzes the oxidation of NADH by coenzyme Q.^[30] However, these enzymes are also referred to as dehydrogenases or reductases, with NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase commonly being called NADH dehydrogenase or sometimes coenzyme Q reductase.^[31]

When bound to a protein, NAD⁺ and NADH are usually held within a structural motif known as the Rossmann fold.^[32] The motif is named after Michael Rossmann who was the first scientist to notice how common this structure is within nucleotide-binding proteins.^[33] This fold contains three or more parallel beta strands linked by two alpha helices in the order beta-alpha-beta-alpha-beta. This forms a beta sheet flanked by a layer of alpha helices on each side. Because each Rossmann fold binds one nucleotide, binding domains for the dinucleotide NAD⁺ consist of two paired Rossmann folds, with each fold binding one nucleotide within the cofactor.^[33] However, this fold is not universal among NAD-dependent enzymes, since a class of bacterial enzymes involved in amino acid metabolism have recently been discovered that bind the coenzyme, but lack this motif.^[34]

Despite this similarity in how proteins bind coenzymes, enzymes almost always show a high level of specificity for either NAD⁺ or NADP⁺.^[35] This specificity reflects the distinct metabolic roles of the two coenzymes, and is the result of distinct sets of amino acid residues in the two types of coenzyme-binding pocket. For instance, in the active site of NADP-dependent enzymes, an ionic bond is formed between a basic amino acid side chain and the acidic phosphate group of NADP⁺. Conversely, in NAD-dependent enzymes the charge in this pocket is reversed, preventing NADP⁺ from binding. However, there are a few exceptions to this general rule, and enzymes such aldose reductase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase can use both coenzymes in some species.^[36]

Role in redox metabolism

Further information: Cellular respiration and Oxidative phosphorylation

The redox reactions catalyzed by oxidoreductases are vital in all parts of metabolism, but one particularly important area where these reactions occur is in the release of energy from nutrients. Here, reduced compounds such as glucose are oxidized, thereby releasing energy. This energy is transferred to NAD⁺ by reduction to NADH, as part of glycolysis and the citric acid cycle. In eukaryotes the electrons carried by the NADH that is produced in the cytoplasm by glycolysis is transferred into the mitochondrion by mitochondrial shuttles, such as the malate-aspartate shuttle. The NADH is then oxidized in turn by the electron transport chain, which pumps protons across a membrane and generates ATP through oxidative phosphorylation.^[37] These shuttle systems also have the same transport function in chloroplasts.^[38]

Since both the oxidized and reduced forms of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide are used in these linked sets of reactions, the cell maintains approximately equal concentrations of NAD⁺ and NADH; the high NAD⁺/NADH ratio allows this coenzyme to act as both an oxidizing and a reducing agent.^[39] In contrast, the main function of NADP⁺ is as a reducing agent in anabolism, with this coenzyme being involved in pathways such as fatty acid synthesis and photosynthesis. Since NADPH is needed to drive redox reactions as a strong reducing agent, the NADP⁺/NADPH ratio is kept very low.^[39]

Although it is important in catabolism, NADH is also used in anabolic reactions, such as gluconeogenesis.^[40] This need for NADH in anabolism poses a problem for prokaryotes growing on nutrients that release only a small amount of energy. For example, nitrifying bacteria such as Nitrobacter oxidize nitrite to nitrate, which releases sufficient energy to pump protons and generate ATP, but not enough to produce NADH directly.^[41] As NADH is still needed for anabolic reactions, these bacteria use a nitrite oxidoreductase to produce enough proton-motive force to run part of the electron transport chain in reverse, generating NADH.^[42]

Non-redox roles

The coenzyme NAD⁺ is also consumed in ADP-ribose transfer reactions. For example, enzymes called ADP-ribosyltransferases add the ADP-ribose moiety of this molecule to proteins, in a posttranslational modification called ADP-ribosylation.^[43] This reaction involves either the addition of a single ADP-ribose group, in mono-ADP-ribosylation, or the transferral of ADP-ribose to proteins in long branched chains, which is called poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation.^[44] Mono-ADP-ribosylation was first identified as the mechanism of a group of bacterial toxins, notably cholera toxin, but it is also involved in normal cell signaling.^[45]^[46] Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is carried out by the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases.^[47]^[44] The poly(ADP-ribose) structure is involved in the regulation of several cellular events and is most important in the cell nucleus, in processes such as DNA repair and telomere maintenance.^[47] In addition to these functions within the cell, a group of extracellular ADP-ribosyltransferases has recently been discovered, but their functions remain obscure.^[48] Another function of this coenzyme in cell signaling is as a precursor of cyclic ADP-ribose, which is produced from NAD⁺ by ADP-ribosyl cyclases, as part of a second messenger system.^[49] This molecule acts in calcium signaling by releasing calcium from intracellular stores.^[50] It does this by binding to and opening a class of calcium channels called ryanodine receptors, which are located in the membranes of organelles, such as the endoplasmic reticulum.^[51]

NAD⁺ is also consumed by sirtuins, which are NAD-dependent deacetylases, such as Sir2.^[52] These enzymes act by transferring an acetyl group from their substrate protein to the ADP-ribose moiety of NAD⁺; this cleaves the coenzyme and releases nicotinamide and O-acetyl-ADP-ribose. The sirtuins mainly seem to be involved in regulating transcription through deacetylating histones and altering nucleosome structure.^[53] These activities of sirtuins are particularly interesting due to their importance in the regulation of aging.^[54]

Other NAD-dependent enzymes include bacterial DNA ligases, which join two DNA ends by using NAD⁺ as a substrate to donate an Adenosine monophosphate (AMP) group to the 5' phosphate of one DNA end. This intermediate is then attacked by the 3' hydroxyl group of the other DNA end, forming a new phosphodiester bond.^[55] This contrasts with eukaryotic DNA ligases, which use ATP to form the DNA-AMP intermediate.^[56]

Pharmacology

The enzymes that make and use NAD⁺ and NADH are important in both current pharmacology and the research into future treatments for disease. Drug design and drug development exploits NAD⁺ in three ways: as a direct target of drugs, by designing enzyme inhibitors or activators based on its structure that change the activity of NAD-dependent enzymes, and by trying to inhibit NAD⁺ biosynthesis.^[57]

The coenzyme NAD⁺ is not itself currently used as a treatment for any disease. However, it is potentially useful in the therapy of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson disease.^[2] Evidence for these applications is mixed; studies in mice are promising,^[58] whereas a placebo-controlled clinical trial failed to show any effect.^[59] NAD⁺ is also a direct target of the drug isoniazid, which is used in the treatment of tuberculosis, an infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Isoniazid is a prodrug and once it has entered the bacteria, it is activated by a peroxidase, which oxidizes the compound into a free radical form.^[60] This radical then reacts with NADH, to produce adducts that are very potent inhibitors of the enzymes enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase,^[61] and dihydrofolate reductase.^[62]

Since a large number of oxidoreductases use NAD⁺ and NADH as substrates, and bind them using a highly-conserved structural motif, the idea that inhibitors based on NAD⁺ could be specific to one enzyme is surprizing.^[63] However, this can be possible: for example, inhibitors based on the compounds mycophenolic acid and tiazofurin inhibit IMP dehydrogenase at the NAD⁺ binding site. Due to importance of this enzyme in purine metabolism, these compounds may be useful as anti-cancer, anti-viral, or immunosuppressive drugs.^[63]^[64] Other drugs are not enzyme inhibitors, but instead activate enzymes involved in NAD⁺ metabolism. Sirtuins are a particularly interesting target for such drugs, since activation of these NAD-dependent deacetylases extends lifespan.^[16] Compounds such as resveratrol increase the activity of these enzymes, which may be important in their ability to delay aging in both vertebrate,^[65] and invertebrate model organisms.^[66]^[67]

Due to the differences in the metabolic pathways of NAD⁺ biosynthesis between organisms, such as between bacteria and humans, this area of metabolism is a promising area for the development of new antibiotics.^[68]^[69] For example, the enzyme nicotinamidase, which converts nicotinamide to nicotinic acid, is a target for drug design, as this enzyme is absent in humans but present in yeast and bacteria.^[25]

History

Further information: History of biochemistry

The coenzyme NAD⁺ was first discovered by the British biochemists Arthur Harden and William Youndin in 1906.^[70] They noticed that adding boiled and filtered yeast extract greatly accelerated alcoholic fermentation in unboiled yeast extracts. They called the unidentified factor responsible for this effect a coferment. Through a long and difficult purification from yeast extracts, this heat-stable factor was identified as a nucleotide sugar phosphate by Hans von Euler-Chelpin.^[71] In 1936, the German scientist Otto Heinrich Warburg showed the function of the nucleotide coenzyme in hydride transfer and identified the nicotinamide portion as the site of redox reactions.^[72]

The source of nicotinamide was identified in 1938, when Conrad Elvehjem purified niacin from liver and showed this vitamin contained nicotinic acid and nicotinamide.^[73] Then, in 1939, he provided the first strong evidence that niacin was used to synthesize NAD⁺.^[74] In the early 1940s, Arthur Kornberg made another important contribution towards understanding NAD⁺ metabolism, by being the first to detect an enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway.^[75] Subsequently, in 1949, the American biochemists Morris Friedkin and Albert L. Lehninger proved that NADH linked metabolic pathways such as the citric acid cycle with the synthesis of ATP in oxidative phosphorylation.^[76] Finally, in 1959, Jack Preiss and Philip Handler discovered the intermediates and enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of NAD⁺;^[77]^[78] consequently, de novo synthesis is often called the Preiss-Handler pathway in their honor.

The non-redox roles of NAD(P) are a recent discovery.^[1] The first of these functions to be identified was the use of NAD⁺ as the ADP-ribose donor in ADP-ribosylation reactions, observed in the early 1960s.^[79] Later studies in the 1980s and 1990s revealed the activities of NAD⁺ and NADP⁺ metabolites in cell signaling - such as the action of cyclic ADP-ribose, which was discovered in 1987.^[80] The metabolism of NAD⁺ has remained an area of intense research into the 21st century, with interest being heightened after the discovery of the NAD⁺-dependent protein deacetylases called sirtuins in 2000, by Shin-ichiro Imai and coworkers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[81]

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