The dinucleotide structure of NAD enables specific reduction on mineral surfaces
Delfina P. Henriques Pereira, Xiulan Xie, S Stewart, Zainab Subrati, Tuğçe Beyazay, Nicole Paczia, Jürgen Belz, Kerstin Volz, Valentina Erastova, Harun Tüysüz, Martina Preiner
This paper investigates the reduction of NAD and NMN on mineral surfaces under abiotic conditions, showing NAD's specificity and the role of the AMP tail in preventing overreduction.
Communications Chemistry · Oct 30, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology