Nicotinamide N -Methyltransferase: More Than a Vitamin B3 Clearance Enzyme
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NNMT (nicotinamide N-methyltransferase)
The human NNMT gene is approximately 16,5 kb in length, consists of 3 exons and 2 introns, and is mapped to chromosome 11q23.1. The first intron is 1,240 bp in length, while the second is approximately 14 kb long. The sequence of the 5'-untranslated region (UTR) of the NNMT cDNA is present in exon 1, while the sequence of the cDNA 3'-UTR is present in exon 3 (Aksoy et al., 1995). The initiation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1043-2760
DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2017.02.004