ROLE OF OXYGEN IN THE VITAMIN-K-DEPENDENT CARBOXYLATION REACTION - INCORPORATION OF A 2ND ATOM OF O-18 FROM MOLECULAR OXYGEN-O-18(2) INTO VITAMIN-K OXIDE DURING CARBOXYLASE ACTIVITY
- Authors
- DOWD, P; HAM, SW; HERSHLINE, R
- Issue Date
- Sep-1992
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, v.114, no.20, pp 7613 - 7617
- Pages
- 5
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
- Volume
- 114
- Number
- 20
- Start Page
- 7613
- End Page
- 7617
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/55954
- DOI
- 10.1021/ja00046a001
- ISSN
- 0002-7863
1520-5126
- Abstract
- Vitamin K in its hydroquinone form, vitamin KH2, is a cofactor for the enzyme that carboxylates the N-terminal glutamates in six proteins of the blood-clotting cascade. Vitamin KH2 is transformed to vitamin K oxide concurrently with the carboxylation leading to gamma-carboxyglutamate. When vitamin KH2 is treated with O-18(2) in the presence of rat liver microsomes, the product, vitamin K oxide, carries a full atom of O-18 at the epoxide oxygen. This paper reports the partial incorporation of almost 20% of a second atom of O-18 at a carbonyl oxygen of vitamin K oxide. Control reactions demonstrate that exchange with (H2O)-O-18 under the reaction conditions is too slow to account for the additional increment of O-18. It is concluded that the second O-18 arises directly from molecular oxygen and that its incorporation is an integral part of the mechanism of action of vitamin K.
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