<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NAD+ (CAS 53-84-9) is a coenzyme composed of ribosylnicotinamide 5/'-diphosphate coupled to adenosine 5/'-phosphate by pyrophosphate linkage. </font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">It acts as an oxidizing agent, accepting electrons from other molecules while being converted to its reduced form, NADH. </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NAD</font><font face="Lato, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif">+ </font></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">is also essential for the activity of several enzymes, including poly(ADP)-</span><wbr style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">ribose polymerases and cADP-</span><wbr style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">ribose synthases.</span></span></span>