Un bolsillo de unión NAD+ conservado que regula las interacciones proteína-proteína durante el envejecimiento

Jun Li1, Michael S Bonkowski1, Sébastien Moniot2

  • 1Department of Genetics, Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 25, 2017
PubMed
Resumen

La unión de la nicotinamida adenina dinucleótido (NAD+) a los dominios de homología de Nudix regula las interacciones proteicas cruciales para la reparación del ADN. La disminución del NAD+ con la edad perjudica la reparación del ADN, pero la restauración de los niveles de NAD+ revierte esta disminución.

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