The assay was applied to the measurement of the niacin status of two subjects using spot urine samples.
The niacin metabolites N1-methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide (2-PYR) and N1-methylnicotinamide (N-MN) have been quantified in human urine using isocratic reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection after a simple anion-exchange clean-up procedure.
The reversed-phase and anion-exchange modes of high-pressure liquid chromatography were used to separate breakdown products and impurities in solutions of the reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH).
A high-pressure-liquid-chromatography (HPLC) - based technique was developed to assess the oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD (+)) - glycohydrolase activity of the catalytic domain of Pseudomonas exotoxin A containing a hexa-His tag.
The rate of incorporation of nicotinamide - (adenosine-U-14C) adenine dinucleotide ((Ado-U-14C) NAD) into histones and the poly (ADPR) polymerase activity of chromatin suggest that the NAD-dependent ADP-ribosylation of histones depends on the rate of NAD hydrolysis by glycohydrolase in chicken liver nuclei.