NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide mean? 

• NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (noun)
  The noun NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE has 1 sense:

1. a coenzyme present in most living cells and derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid; serves as a reductant in various metabolic processes

  Familiarity information: NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coenzyme present in most living cells and derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid; serves as a reductant in various metabolic processes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

NAD; nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

Hypernyms ("nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide" is a kind of...):

coenzyme (a small molecule (not a protein but sometimes a vitamin) essential for the activity of some enzymes)

 Context examples 

Cladribine triphosphate, a phosphorylated metabolite of cladribine, incorporates into DNA, resulting in single-strand breaks in DNA, depletion of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and apoptosis.

(Cladribine, NCI Thesaurus)

The active form of vitamin B3 and a component of the coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD).

(Niacinamide, NCI Thesaurus)

This reaction, in addition to producing lactic acid, also produces nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) that is then used in glycolysis to produce energy source adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

(Lactic Acid, DL-, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the synthesis of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.

(Nicotinate-Nucleotide Pyrophosphorylase [Carboxylating], NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic derivative of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD).

(Aminothiadiazole, NCI Thesaurus)

Vitamin B3, also called nicotinic acid or niacin, is a precursor to NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), which is essential to metabolism and likely very ancient in origin.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)

NR acts on the brain by normalizing levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a metabolite vital to cellular energy, stem cell self-renewal, resistance to neuronal stress and DNA repair.

(Compound prevents neurological damage, shows cognitive benefits in mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

This bacteria is nonmotile, catalase positive, nonencapsulated, and is nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dependent.

(Actinobacillus suis, NCI Thesaurus)

Niacin is converted to its active form niacinamide, which is a component of the coenzymes nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and its phosphate form, NADP.

(Niacin, NCI Thesaurus)

The exotoxin moiety induces caspase-mediated apoptosis of tumor cells via a mechanism involving mitochondrial damage; it also catalyzes the transfer of ADP ribose from nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) to elongation factor-2 in eukaryotic cells, thereby inactivating elongation factor 2 and inhibiting protein synthesis.

(Cintredekin Besudotox, NCI Thesaurus)