Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Epistasis-driven identification of SLC25A51 as a regulator of human mitochondrial NAD import

  • Enrico Girardi,
  • Gennaro Agrimi,
  • Ulrich Goldmann,
  • Giuseppe Fiume,
  • Sabrina Lindinger,
  • Vitaly Sedlyarov,
  • Ismet Srndic,
  • Bettina Gürtl,
  • Benedikt Agerer,
  • Felix Kartnig,
  • Pasquale Scarcia,
  • Maria Antonietta Di Noia,
  • Eva Liñeiro,
  • Manuele Rebsamen,
  • Tabea Wiedmer,
  • Andreas Bergthaler,
  • Luigi Palmieri,
  • Giulio Superti-Furga

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19871-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Maintenance of a mitochondrial NAD+ pool is critical for cellular life, yet the existence and identity of the transporter responsible for mitochondrial NAD+ uptake was unknown until recently. Here, the authors use genomic, genetic, and metabolomic approaches to demonstrate that SLC25A51 controls NAD+ mitochondrial levels and is the functional homolog of the yeast mitochondrial NAD+ transporter.