期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1975
卷号:72
期号:4
页码:1281-1285
DOI:10.1073/pnas.72.4.1281
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:A 39-residue peptide from the tryptic digestion of bovine blood clotting factor X has been isolated by specific adsorption on barium citrate. The amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences of the peptide were determined and compared to the vitamin K-dependent Ca2+-binding region from bovine prothrombin. The factor X peptide was found to contain gamma-carboxyglutamic acid residues, and the results of independent analysis are consistent with all 14 glutamic acid residues as gamma-carboxyglutamic acid. The similarity of the factor X peptide to the prothrombin peptide supports the hypothesis that the vitamin K-dependent blood clotting proteins are descended from a common ancestral gene.