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Ono, M. et al.

Measurement of immunoreactive prothrombin precursor and vitamin-K-dependent gamma-carboxylation in human hepatocellular carcinoma tissues: decreased carboxylation of prothrombin precursor as a cause of des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin synthesis.

Des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin is an abnormal prothrombin which is drastically increased in the plasma of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. To investigate the process of the abnormal prothrombin synthesis, the amount of prothrombin precursor was measured with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using a specific antibody directed to human prothrombin; the vitamin-K-dependent gamma-carboxylation of prothrombin precursor was determined in human liver tissues. The tissue content of prothrombin precursor was increased in hepatoma tissues compared with noncancerous liver tissues, while the vitamin-K-dependent carboxylation of prothrombin precursor was markedly decreased in hepatoma tissues of the patients with increased plasma des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin. The present study indicates that in hepatocellular carcinoma an increase in prothrombin precursor concentration does not induce vitamin-K-dependent carboxylase activity, which is ordinarily observed in normal liver; probably an overproduction of prothrombin precursor with reduced gamma-carboxylation causes an increase in plasma des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.[1]

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Measurement of immunoreactive prothrombin precursor and vitamin-K-dependent gamma-carboxylation in human hepatocellular carcinoma tissues: decreased carboxylation of prothrombin precursor as a cause of des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin synthesis. Ono, M., Ohta, H., Ohhira, M., Sekiya, C., Namiki, M. Tumour Biol. (1990) [Pubmed]

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