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Discoveries of Nicotinamide Riboside as a Nutrient and Conserved NRK Genes Establish a Preiss-Handler Independent Route to NAD+ in Fungi and Humans

P Bieganowski, C Brenner. Cell. 2004.

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Identified nicotinamide riboside as an NAD+ precursor and the kinases that convert it.

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Basic science.

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doi.org/10.1016/S0092-8674(04)00416-7 · PubMed 15137942

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