Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

A ribose-functionalized NAD+ with unexpected high activity and selectivity for protein poly-ADP-ribosylation

  • Xiao-Nan Zhang,
  • Qinqin Cheng,
  • Jingwen Chen,
  • Albert T. Lam,
  • Yanran Lu,
  • Zhefu Dai,
  • Hua Pei,
  • Nikolai M. Evdokimov,
  • Stan G. Louie,
  • Yong Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12215-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The study of NAD+ dependent ADP-ribosylation can be challenging. Here the authors report on the development of NAD+ analogues, using chemo-enzymatic methods, which can be used as probes to label the substrate proteins of poly-ADP-ribose polymerase.