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Recent trends in the metabolism and cell biology of vitamin K with special reference to vitamin K cycling and MK-4 biosynthesis

Shearer MJ, Newman P · Journal of Lipid Research

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Explains why the K1-versus-K2 argument is not as clean as it is usually presented: tissues convert dietary phylloquinone into menaquinone-4 themselves, through a described enzymatic route, so eating greens is not simply a way of not getting K2.

Population
Vitamin K metabolism
Intervention
Not applicable
Comparator
Not applicable
Limitations
A metabolism review; how much MK-4 a human tissue makes from a dietary dose is not settled by it.

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