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JBC, Vol. 251, Issue 9, 2770-2776, May, 1976

Vitamin K-dependent carboxylase. Requirements of the rat liver microsomal enzyme system

J. A. Sadowski, C. T. Esmon and J. W. Suttie

Vitamin K is required in an enzymatic reaction which carboxylates glutamyl residues in a microsomal protein precursor of plasma prothrombin to form gamma-carboxyglutamic acid residues. The partial requirements of this microsomal, vitamin K-dependent carboxylase system have been determined. A requirement of the system for cytosolic factors appears to be due primarily to the presence of reduced pyridine nucleotides or a reduced pyridine nucleotide-generating system in the cytosol. The hydroquinone of vitamin K has been demonstrated to be the enzymatically active form of the vitamin. When vitamin K1 hydroquinone is added to the carboxylase system, no NAD(P)H is needed for maximum activity. The carboxylase activity is half-maximally stimulated by 0.25 mug of vitamin K1/ml in the presence of cytosolic components but requires at least 10 times as much vitamin when microsomes are incubated in a cytosol-free buffer. Menadione is inactive as a vitamin source in this system, and the carboxylase activity is inhibited by the 2-chloro analog of vitamin K1 and by Warfarin. The ATP analog, AMP-P(NH)P, inhibited the carboxylase activity, but a dependence on exogenous ATP or an ATP-generating system could not be demonstrated. Carboxylase activity was found to be dependent on an O2-containing gas phase, and upon the HCO3- concentration.
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