Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

BST1 regulates nicotinamide riboside metabolism via its glycohydrolase and base-exchange activities

  • Keisuke Yaku,
  • Sailesh Palikhe,
  • Hironori Izumi,
  • Tomoyuki Yoshida,
  • Keisuke Hikosaka,
  • Faisal Hayat,
  • Mariam Karim,
  • Tooba Iqbal,
  • Yasuhito Nitta,
  • Atsushi Sato,
  • Marie E. Migaud,
  • Katsuhiko Ishihara,
  • Hisashi Mori,
  • Takashi Nakagawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27080-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Nicotinamide riboside (NR) is a NAD + precursor exhibiting beneficial effects against aging. Here the authors demonstrate that orally administered NR increases NAD + levels in a diphasic manner and that bone marrow stromal cell antigen 1 plays a crucial role for NAD + synthesis from NR.