Assays for Determination of Cellular and Mitochondrial NAD+ and NADH Content. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • NAD+ is a redox cofactor essential to the proper functioning of a variety of important metabolic pathways, including key steps in mitochondrial energy metabolism. In addition, it serves as a signaling substrate for enzymes such as sirtuins and the poly-ADP ribosyl-polymerase family of enzymes. Sirtuins, which are NAD+-dependent protein deacylases, harness changes in cellular NAD+ concentrations to produce changes in protein acylation status, thereby affecting downstream functions including energy metabolism, stress resistance, and cell survival. Thus, the availability of NAD+ in cells, or in specific organelles such as the mitochondrion, regulates downstream signaling and key biological processes. This concept has driven a need for researchers to easily and precisely measure NAD+ concentrations in biological samples. We herein describe several protocols for the measurement of NAD+ and NADH concentrations in tissues, cells, or subcellular compartments such as mitochondria. These protocols include a cycling assay that can quickly measure NAD+ or NADH levels using a plate reader equipped with fluorescence measurement capabilities. This plate assay relies only upon commercially available materials in addition to the biological samples of interest. In addition, we describe a protocol employing stable isotope-labeled NAD+ as an internal standard to determine biological NAD+ content by isotope-dilution methods. This method requires mass spectrometry to ratio endogenous NAD+ with exogenous isotope-labeled NAD+ to obtain quantification using HPLC and mass spectrometry.

publication date

  • January 1, 2021

Research

keywords

  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Energy Metabolism
  • Indicator Dilution Techniques
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Mitochondria
  • NAD

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85107800224

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/jlcr.617

PubMed ID

  • 34096008

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 2310