Metabolism of vitamin K and vitamin K 2,3-epoxide via interaction with a common disulfide
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 23 (10), 2246-2252
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00305a024
Abstract
The effects of thiols and SD blocking reagents on the reduction of vitamin K to vitamin K hydroquinone and vitamin K 2,3-epoxide to vitamin K and vitamin K hydroquinone catalyzed by rat hepatic microsomes were investigated to determine the mechanism(s) for these reactions. Both vitamin K and vitamin K 2,3-epoxide reductions were catalyzed more effectively with dithiols than with monothiols as the reductant. The SD reagent N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) inhibited vitamin K and vitamin K 2,3-epoxide reduction much more effectively when microsomes were initially treated with dithiothreitol (prereduced). In prereduced microsomes iodoacetamide was approximately half as effective an inhibitor of vitamin K and vitamin K 2,3-epoxide reduction as NEM, but in microsomes not prereduced it was more effective. IAA was ineffective as an inhibitor. vitamin K or vitanin K 2,3-epoxide added to prereduced micorosomes blocked subsequent inhibition by NEM of vitamin K and vitamin K 2,3-epoxide metabolism, respectively. Vitamin K added to prereduced microsomes also blocked inhibition by NEM of vitamin K 2,3-epoxide metabolism, and vitamin K 2,3-epoxide addition blocked inhibition by NEM of vitamin K metabolism. Vitamin K did not diminish the rate of vitamin K 2,3-epoxide metabolism, however, nor did vitamin K 2,3-epoxide diminish the rate of vitamin K metabolism. Exogenous thiol compounds promote the reduction of at least 1 protein disulfide which participates in the metabolism of vitamin K and vitamin K 2,3-epoxide. Presumably, the resultant SH groups are reoxidized to the disulfide form during the metabolism of either vitamin which protects them from reaction with NEM.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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