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SUBMITTER: Liu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946407 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Shixuan S Li Shuang S Shen Guomin G Sukumar Narayanasami N Krezel Andrzej M AM Li Weikai W
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20201105 6524
Vitamin K antagonists are widely used anticoagulants that target vitamin K epoxide reductases (VKOR), a family of integral membrane enzymes. To elucidate their catalytic cycle and inhibitory mechanism, we report 11 x-ray crystal structures of human VKOR and pufferfish VKOR-like, with substrates and antagonists in different redox states. Substrates entering the active site in a partially oxidized state form cysteine adducts that induce an open-to-closed conformational change, triggering reduction ...[more]