Open AccessMultiple Dietary Vitamin K Forms Are Converted to Tissue Menaquinone-4 in Mice
Author(s) -
Jessie L Ellis,
Xueyan Fu,
J. Philip Karl,
Christopher J. Hernandez,
Joel B. Mason,
Russell A. DeBoseBoyd,
Sarah L. Booth
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 265
eISSN - 1541-6100
pISSN - 0022-3166
DOI - 10.1093/jn/nxab332
Subject(s) - food science , vitamin , chemistry , biochemistry , biology
Vitamin K is a term that comprises a family of structurally related quinones, phylloquinone (PK) and the menaquinones (MKn), that share a common naphthoquinone ring but vary in sidechain length (n) and saturation. Dietary PK is a biosynthetic precursor to tissue menaquinone-4 (MK4), but little is known about the absorption and metabolism of dietary MKn.
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