Vitamin K dependent formation of γ-carboxyglutamate residues in tumor microsomes
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
11-16-1982
Abstract
Vitamin K stimulated the incorporation of 14C into proteins when microsomes from melanoma, mammary gland, mast cell and lymphoma tumors were incubated with Na214CO3. The 14C label in the [14C] proteins was identified as [14C] γ-carboxyglutamate (Gla), which is formed by carboxylation of glutamic acid residues. Carboxylation in tumor microsomes ranged from 2 to 19% of the carboxylation in normal liver microsomes per mg of microsomal protein. Carboxylation in microsomes was completely blocked by 10 μM Warfarin. SDS-polyacrylamide gel analysis of the melanoma [14C] Gla protein(s) revealed one major peak of 14C with an apparent MW of less than 6,000. © 1982.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Volume
109
Issue
1
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Buchthal, Steven D., Cathy G. McAllister, David C. C. Laux, and Robert G. Bell. "Vitamin K dependent formation of γ-carboxyglutamate residues in tumor microsomes." Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 109, 1 (1982): 55-62. doi: 10.1016/0006-291X(82)91565-0.
