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 ...

The participation of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid as an intermediate in the biosynthesis of nicotinic acid from tryptophan was first demonstrated in certain mutant strains of Neurospora in 1948 by Bonner (1) and by Mitchell and Nyc (2). In addition, Mitchell et al. (3) found that 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid can replace nicotinic acid in the nutrition of the rat. In 1946 Singal et al. (4) noted a sub...

It has been suggested that the nicotinic acid provocation test is useful in the diagnosis of Gilbert's syndrome. We compared the response to intravenous nicotinic acid of patients with Gilbert's syndrome and with chronic liver disease. There was no significant difference in the mean rise in unconjugated serum bilirubin between the two groups. A sensitivity of 70% and specificity of 60% were obt...

Melinacidin, a new antibacterial agent, blocked the synthesis of nicotinic acid and its amide in Bacillus subtilis cells. The inhibitory activity of the agent was reversed by nicotinic acid, its amide, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides, but not by l-kynurenine, l-3-hydroxykynurenine, l-hydroxyanthranilic acid, or quinolinic acid. These properties indicated that the antibiotic interferes wit...

6-Hydroxynicotinic acid was demonstrated to be the first intermediate in the degradation of nicotinic acid by a clostridium. In the presence of pyruvate, other intermediates accumulated; two of these were identified, one as 1,4,5,6tetrahydro-6-oxonicotinic acid, and the other as a!-methyleneglutaric acid. The pathways for nicotinic acid degradation may be considered as involving successive oxid...

BACKGROUND Ketamine inhibits the activation of both heteromeric and homomeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. The site of molecular interaction is unknown. METHODS The inhibition of alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by ketamine was compared to that of 5-hydroxytryptamine-3A (5HT3A) receptors that are resistant to ketamine inhibition in Xenopus laevis oocytes. To determine whether th...

This study found that in Tris-HCl buffer, the resonance light scattering (RLS) intensity of the Eu(3+)-nicotinic acid system can be greatly enhanced by nucleic acids and the enhanced intensity is proportional to the concentration of nucleic acid in the range of 7 x 10(-8)-1 x 10(-5 ) g x mL(-1) for fsDNA, and its detection limit is 2 x 10(-8 ) g x mL(-1). Based on this, a new method for the det...

Recent studies have shown that tryptophan is effective in preventing or curing nicotinic acid deficiency in the rat (l), chick (2), mouse (3), dog (4), pig (5), and rabbit (6). Increased urinary excretion of nicotinic acid or P;S’-methylnicotinamide (NI-Me) after ingestion of tryptophan has been demonstrated in the rat (7), cotton rat (8), horse (8), pig (5), dog (4), calf (9), and human (10, 1...