Metabolism of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in human and bovine strainsof Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- 1 May 1972
- journal article
- Vol. 110 (2), 600-3
Abstract
A marked difference was found to exist between the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) glycohydrolase activity of human strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as compared with bovine strains. Human strains had from 6- to 20-fold higher NAD glycohydrolase activity than bovine strains. This finding explains the accumulation of free nicotinic acid in the culture medium by human strains and not by bovine strains. The biosynthetic intermediates nicotinic acid mononucleotide and deamido-NAD were not degraded by either human or bovine strains of M. tuberculosis; hence these nucleotides do not represent a source of the nicotinic acid accumulated by the human strains.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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