Tag: NADPH

  What is niacin? Niacin is an organic acid the IUPAC name of which is pyrimidine-3-carboxylic acid. It is also called as nicotinic acid or vitamin B3. However, the biologically active form is nicotinamide, not the niacin which is formed during the formation of niacin-derived cofactors …

 FMS-like Tyrosine Kinase 3 (FLT3) or Fetal Liver Kinase 2 (Flk2) is a cytokine receptor belonging to the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase class 3 and is involved in the expression of NADPH oxidase. Around 20% of the Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patients have been found to have …

 Pentose phosphate pathway or the phosphogluconate pathway or the hexose monophosphate shunt is a biochemical pathway that occurs in the cytosol of the cells. This pathway is similar to the glycolysis in the sense that it is also involved in glucose oxidation. The main products of this …

 NADPH is the reduced form of Nicotinamide Adenosine Dinucleotide Phosphate or NADP+. It is used in different reductive biosynthetic pathways where it acts as a reducing agent. Biosynthetic pathways such as fatty acid biosynthesis, cholesterol biosynthesis, hormone biosynthesis, etc. all use NADPH as a reducing agent. …