Biochemistry - The Chemical Reactions of Living Cells, Volume 2 - D. Metzler 1980

Coenzymes - specialized natural reagents
Pyridine nucleotide coenzymes and dehydrogenases
Analogues of pyridine nucleotides

Treatment of NAD with nitrous acid results in deamination of the adenine ring. The resulting deamino-NAD+, like synthetic analogues containing groups

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instead of the carboxamide group, is widely used to study Enzymes.



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