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Key Pathways and Regulators of Vitamin K Function and Intermediary Metabolism.
Annual review of nutrition - 21 Aug 2018
Shearer Martin J, Okano Toshio
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin K (VK) is an essential cofactor for the post-translational conversion of peptide-bound glutamate to γ-carboxyglutamate. The resultant vitamin K-dependent proteins are known or postulated to possess a variety of biological functions, chiefly in the maintenance of hemostasis. The vitamin K cycle is a cellular pathway that drives γ-carboxylation and recycling of VK via γ-carboxyglutamyl carboxylase (GGCX)...
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