Vitamin K is the blood-clotting vitamin. It participates in the blood coagulation cascade as a carboxylase cofactor. Enzymic oxygenation of vitamin K hydroquinone provides the driving force for the carboxylation of selected glutamates in the proteins of the blood-clotting cascade. The active site of vitamin K has now been defined by O-18-labeling experiments. The oxygenation is completely specific for the carbonyl group adjacent to the quinone methyl group of vitamin K. The experiment makes use of the O-18-labeled vitamin K isotopomers 9 and 10. Thus, oxygenation of 9 with O-16(2) occurs at the carbonyl group next to methyl, as shown by exchange of the O-18 label at that position. Synthesis of the two O-18-labeled vitamin K isotopomers 9 and 10 was accomplished by cerium(IV)-mediated oxidation in the presence of (H2O)-O-18 of the corresponding methyl half-ethers 4 and 8. The position of the label was ascertained by C-13 and heteronuclear NOE NMR spectroscopies. A role for the active site thiols on the vitamin K-dependent carboxylase is also suggested. The thiolate anion is an excellent candidate for the weak base that initiates the base strength amplification sequence leading to carboxylation and vitamin K oxide formation.
AREFEVA, I. V.;ZHUKOVA, E. EH.;BYZOVA, V. N.;EVSTIGNEEVA, R. P., BCEC. KONF. PO XIMII XINONOV I XINOID. SOED., KRASNOYARSK, 3-5 IYULYA, 19+
作者:AREFEVA, I. V.、ZHUKOVA, E. EH.、BYZOVA, V. N.、EVSTIGNEEVA, R. P.
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Thermochemical investigation of the oxygenation of vitamin K
作者:Robert A. Flowers、Sriram Naganathan、Paul Dowd、Edward M. Arnett、Seung Wook Ham
DOI:10.1021/ja00074a006
日期:1993.10
oxygen with the potassium salt derived from deprotonation of the hydroquinone form of vitaminK. From that value (-33.52±0.60 kcal/mol), the heat of deprotonation of vitamin KH 2 (-30.03±1.20 kcal/mol), and the heat of deprotonation of water (-6.05±0.3 kcal/mol), the enthalpy change for converting vitamin KH 2 to vitaminK oxide is established to be -57.5 kcal/mol, in reasonable agreement with our previous