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vitamin K epoxide reductase complex, subunit 1
Identifiers
SymbolVKORC1
Alt. symbolsVKCFD2
NCBI gene79001
HGNC23663
RefSeqNM_024006
Other data
LocusChr. 16 p11.2

Vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKOR) is an enzyme (EC 1.1.4.1) that reduces vitamin K after it has been oxidised in the carboxylation of glutamic acid. Its C1 subunit (VKORC1) is the target of anticoagulant warfarin.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Li T, Chang CY, Jin DY, Lin PJ, Khvorova A, Stafford DW. Identification of the gene for vitamin K epoxide reductase. Nature 2004;427(6974):541-4. PMID 14765195.
  2. ^ Rost S, Fregin A, Ivaskevicius V, Conzelmann E, Hortnagel K, Pelz HJ, Lappegard K, Seifried E, Scharrer I, Tuddenham EG, Muller CR, Strom TM, Oldenburg J. Mutations in VKORC1 cause warfarin resistance and multiple coagulation factor deficiency type 2. Nature 2004;427(6974):537-41. PMID 14765194.

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