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A close look at NAD biosynthesis

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Two new studies on the structure of an enzyme involved the synthesis of mammalian NAD shed new light on the evolutionary and biochemical complexity of this fundamental metabolic pathway.

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Figure 1: NAD and its biosynthesis

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