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NAD+ Kinase as a Therapeutic Target in Cancer.

Clin Cancer Res

November 2016

Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and the Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

NAD kinase (NADK) catalyzes the phosphorylation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) using ATP as the phosphate donor. NADP is then reduced to NADPH by dehydrogenases, in particular glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and the malic enzymes. NADPH functions as an important cofactor in a variety of metabolic and biosynthetic pathways.

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