Protein / target
Vitamin K epoxide reductase complex subunit 1
Protein at a glance
Biological role
Vitamin-K-epoxide reductase (warfarin-insensitive) activity
Strongest disease association
Hereditary combined deficiency of vitamin K-dependent clotting factors
Therapeutic maturity
Clinically validated target
Druggability
Small molecule
Clinical development
6 approved · 1 in clinical development
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Protein profile
Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.
Function
Involved in vitamin K metabolism. Catalytic subunit of the vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKOR) complex which reduces inactive vitamin K 2,3-epoxide to active vitamin K. Vitamin K is required for the gamma-carboxylation of various proteins, including clotting factors, and is required for normal blood coagulation, but also for normal bone development
Subcellular location
Domains and Gene Ontology detail (11)Hide
Gene Ontology
- Cendoplasmic reticulum
- Cendoplasmic reticulum lumen
- Cendoplasmic reticulum membrane
- Fquinone binding
- Fvitamin-K-epoxide reductase (warfarin-insensitive) activity
- Fvitamin-K-epoxide reductase (warfarin-sensitive) activity
- Pblood coagulation
- Pbone development
- Ppeptidyl-glutamic acid carboxylation
- Pvitamin K metabolic process
- Pxenobiotic metabolic process
Biological roles
What this protein does, drawn together from its UniProt function, Gene Ontology terms and Reactome pathways.
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Haemostasis
- ·Involved in vitamin K metabolism. Catalytic subunit of the vitamin K epoxide reductase (…
- ·blood coagulation
Metabolic enzyme activity
- ·vitamin K metabolic process
- ·xenobiotic metabolic process
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Interaction neighbourhood
Proteins with the strongest functional or physical association. Node size and line weight reflect STRING confidence; hover or select a partner to inspect one association.
Functional and physical associations from STRING v12.0. Only associations with this protein are drawn — partner-to-partner links are not part of this evidence.
Drugs targeting this protein
Whether each drug engages this protein directly or through a complex, and how many other targets are recorded for it. Direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.
Vitamin k epoxide reductase complex subunit 1 isoform 1 inhibitor
Appears in clinical studies involving Recurrent thrombophlebitis, thrombotic disease, pulmonary embolism, cervical artery dissection
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Translational evidence
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Strongest genetic associations
Human genetic evidence — the most direct causal link between this target and a disease.
Highest-confidence therapeutic associations
Diseases where a drug acting on this target has already reached clinical development.
Highest overall evidence
Remaining associations by Open Targets' aggregated evidence score.
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Open Targets ranks 862 associations for this target and we store the top 10 by aggregated score. The long tail is largely literature co-mention and RNA-expression evidence, not evidence that this target drives those diseases.
Known drugs · 7 total
Recurrent thrombophlebitis · thrombotic disease · hemorrhage
Recurrent thrombophlebitis · blood coagulation disease · pulmonary embolism
thrombotic disease
Recurrent thrombophlebitis · hemorrhagic disease · thrombotic disease
Recurrent thrombophlebitis · thrombotic disease · pulmonary embolism
Recurrent thrombophlebitis · atrial fibrillation · thrombotic disease
atrial fibrillation · Thromboembolism · Venous thrombosis
Tractability
Safety liabilities
Clinical trials
Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein.
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Forefront confidence
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What's happening now
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Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.