“…Niacin and nicotinamide serve as dietary precursors for the enzymatic cofactors NAD + and NADP + that are required in many redox reactions and are involved in fatty acid and carbohydrate metabolism (Wahlberg et al, 2000). NAD + is also a critical metabolite in cellular signaling reactions as it serves as a substrate for ADP-ribosyltransferases and ADPribosyl cyclases to generate ADP-ribosylated substrates and cyclic ADP-ribose, respectively (Lepiniec et al, 1995;DoucetChabeaud et al, 2001;Virá g and Szabó , 2002;Hassa et al, 2006;Pollak et al, 2007;Lamb et al, 2011). ADP-ribosylation plays a critical role in various cellular processes, such as DNA repair (Doucet-Chabeaud et al, 2001), stress responses (Monks et al, 2006;Adams-Phillips et al, 2008), cell cycle control (Shiotani et al, 2006), and chromatin structure (Laroche et al, 1980;Houben et al, 2007), and cyclic ADP-ribose is important in the control of the cellular calcium flux (Higashida et al, 2001;Pollak et al, 2007;Morgan and Galione, 2008).…”