Gamma-glutamyl carboxylase is an enzyme which oxidizes Vitamin K hydroquinone to Vitamin K 2,3 epoxide, while simultaneously adding CO2 to protein-bound glutamic acid (abbreviation = Glu) to form gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (also called gamma-carboxyglutamate, abbreviation = Gla). The carboxylation reaction will only proceed if the carboxylase enzyme is able to oxidize vitamin K hydroquinone to vitamin K epoxide at the same time; the carboxylation and epoxidation reactions are said to be coupled reactions.[1][2] Gla domain-containing proteins depend on the carboxylation reaction for posttranslational modification.
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Further reading
- David A. Bender, Nutritional biochemistry of the vitamins, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- G. F. M. Ball, Vitamins: their role in the human body, Blackwell Science, 2004
- Gerald F. Combs, The vitamins: fundamental aspects in nutrition and health, Academic Press, 1998
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