Analysis of the nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase family provides insight into vertebrate adaptation to different oxygen levels during the water-to-land transition

Extracellular Visfatin has Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase Enzymatic Activity and is Neuroprotective Against Ischemic Injury

(2014) Yan Zhao et al.   CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics

Visfatin/Nampt induces telomere damage and senescence in human endothelial cells

(2014) Laura A. Villalobos et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Neuronal NAMPT is Released after Cerebral Ischemia and Protects against White Matter Injury

(2014) Zheng Jing et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyl Transferase/Pre-B Cell Colony-Enhancing Factor/Visfatin Is Required for Lymphocyte Development and Cellular Resistance to Genotoxic Stress

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NAMPT (visfatin), a direct target of hypoxia-inducible factor-2α, is an essential catabolic regulator of osteoarthritis

(2013) Siyoung Yang et al.   ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES

Coelacanth genomes reveal signatures for evolutionary transition from water to land

(2013) M. Nikaido et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Adaptive Functional Divergence of the Warm Temperature Acclimation-Related Protein (WAP65) in Fishes and the Ortholog Hemopexin (HPX) in Mammals

(2013) João Paulo Machado et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

An Update of DIVERGE Software for Functional Divergence Analysis of Protein Family

(2013) Xun Gu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution

(2013) Chris T. Amemiya et al.   NATURE

Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification

(2012) T. J. Near et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Angiotensin II Type-1 Receptor-JAK/STAT Pathway Mediates the Induction of Visfatin in Angiotensin II-Induced Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy

(2011) Liang Chang et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Nicotinamide Mononucleotide, a Key NAD+ Intermediate, Treats the Pathophysiology of Diet- and Age-Induced Diabetes in Mice

(2011) Jun Yoshino et al.   Cell Metabolism

Pre-B-cell colony-enhancing factor exerts a neuronal protection through its enzymatic activity and the reduction of mitochondrial dysfunction in in vitro ischemic models

(2011) Jing Bi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

An Improved Likelihood Ratio Test for Detecting Site-Specific Functional Divergence among Clades of Protein-Coding Genes

(2011) Cameron J. Weadick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular Evolution of the Metazoan PHD–HIF Oxygen-Sensing System

(2011) Kalle T. Rytkönen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Change of Positive Selection Pressure on HIV-1 Envelope Gene Inferred by Early and Recent Samples

(2011) Izumi Yoshida et al.   PLoS One

Loss of fish actinotrichia proteins and the fin-to-limb transition

(2010) Jing Zhang et al.   NATURE

Ancient Atmospheres and the Evolution of Oxygen Sensing Via the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor in Metazoans

(2010) Cormac T. Taylor et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase Regulates Cell Survival Through NAD + Synthesis in Cardiac Myocytes

(2009) Chiao-Po Hsu et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

The molecular "Jekyll and Hyde" duality of PARP1 in cell death and cell survival

(2009) Paul et al.   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Structure and reaction mechanism of human nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase

(2009) Ryo Takahashi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY

A phosphoenzyme mimic, overlapping catalytic sites and reaction coordinate motion for human NAMPT

(2009) E. S. Burgos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NAMPT (visfatin) in the chicken testis: influence of sexual maturation on cellular localization, plasma levels and gene and protein expression

(2009) Olga M Ocón-Grove et al.   REPRODUCTION

The NAD+-Dependent Deacetylase SIRT1 Modulates CLOCK-Mediated Chromatin Remodeling and Circadian Control

(2008) Yasukazu Nakahata et al.   CELL

Interactions between PBEF and oxidative stress proteins - A potential new mechanism underlying PBEF in the pathogenesis of acute lung injury

(2008) Li Qin Zhang et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor in lower vertebrates: First evidence of this cytokine being involved in antioxidant activity by reconstruction of a novel NAD salvage pathway in E. coli

(2008) Wei-Ren Dong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Timing of Genome Duplications Relative to the Origin of the Vertebrates: Did Cyclostomes Diverge before or after?

(2008) S. Kuraku et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE

High-resolution in situ hybridization to whole-mount zebrafish embryos

(2007) Christine Thisse et al.   Nature Protocols