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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-9-8
pubmed:abstractText
Vitamin K-dependent proteins contain a propeptide that is required for recognition by the enzyme gamma-glutamylcarboxylase. Substrates used in vitro for carboxylation studies lacking a prosequence are characterized by Km values in the millimolar range, whereas the Km for peptides containing a prosequence is three or four orders of magnitude smaller. Here we report that descarboxy-osteocalcin is an exception in this respect. With descarboxy-osteocalcin in purified propeptide-free recombinant carboxylase, the Km was 1.8 microM. Furthermore, osteocalcin was an inhibitor of descarboxy-osteocalcin carboxylation with a Ki of 76 microM. In contrast with the other vitamin K-dependent proteins, free propeptides do not inhibit descarboxy-osteocalcin carboxylation. Moreover, propeptide-containing substrates were inhibited neither by osteocalcin nor by its propeptide. From our studies we conclude that descarboxy-osteocalcin must have an internal recognition sequence that binds to gamma-glutamylcarboxylase at a site different from the propeptide-recognition site.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0264-6021
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
341 ( Pt 2)
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
265-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Osteocalcin binds tightly to the gamma-glutamylcarboxylase at a site distinct from that of the other known vitamin K-dependent proteins.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't