Nicotinamide Riboside on Mitochondrial Function in Li-Fraumeni Syndrome

Niacin is a form of vitamin B3 and has been used to treat hypercholesterolemia for many years. There is growing evidence that nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+ can maintain mitochondria through various mechanisms and that it is possible to improve mitochondrial function by dietary supplementation with the vitamin B3 analogue nicotinamide riboside (NR), an intermediate in the NAD+ salvage pathway. We have observed that culturing the fibroblasts of a LFS patient with mitochondrial deficiency in medium containing NR rescues the defect in mitochondrial respiration.