“…T Xhe widespread occurrence of the enzyme nicotinamide deamidase (Preiss and Handler, 1958a,b;Imsande, 1961;Joshi and Handler, 1962;Bernheim, 1967;Pallini et al, 1965;Petrack et al, 1963Petrack et al, , 1965Kirchner et al, 1966;Marki and Greengard, 1966) and the possibility that control of the Preiss-Handler pathway of NAD biosynthesis may occur in vivo at this reaction (Greengard et al, 1963(Greengard et al, , 1965(Greengard et al, , 1969 have stimulated investigations into the physical, kinetic, structural, and control properties of the enzyme (Su et al, 1969). Of particular interest was the finding that nicotinamide deamidase from rabbit liver also catalyzes the hydrolysis of a variety of ester substrates (Su et al, 1969).…”