Review Question - QID 108464

A 55-year-old male presents to the emergency department after he was seen having a seizure. On presentation he is comatose and very jaundiced despite having no previous medical history and dies shortly thereafter. Over the next several hours 5 more patients present to the ER with severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, and bleeding abnormalities. They all recently returned from a several day camping trip where they slept in the woods and cooked with ingredients they were able to find in the wild. The original patient was also part of this camping trip. Postmortem analysis reveals massive hepatic necrosis. Which of the following activities was most likely inhibited by the cause of this patient's presentation?