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* Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, UK
Novus International, St. Louis, MO 63141
2 Corresponding author: g.lobley{at}rowett.ac.uk
This study was undertaken to determine how, and where, 2-hydroxy-4-methylthiobutyrate (HMTBA) can augment Met metabolism in lambs. Four lambs (initial body weight of 50 kg, SE = 2, and 6 mo of age) prepared with catheters in the mesenteric, portal, hepatic, and jugular veins plus the aorta, were fed at 1.5x maintenance on a grass hay, barley, fish meal, molasses/pre-mix (5:3:1:1, as fed) diet, supplied as hourly meals. Lambs were infused for 10 h with [methyl-2H3]Met (0.11 mmol/h) in a jugular vein and p-aminohippurate into the mesenteric vein. From 1 h onwards, successive 3-h infusions of saline (control), 0.55 mg/min (3.67 µmol/min), and 4.44 mg/min (29.6 µmol/min) of HMTBA were also infused into the mesenteric vein. Plasma, sampled continuously, was collected every 20 min during the last 60 min of each infusion. All infused HMTBA was recovered at the portal vein with 25% extracted subsequently by the liver. Portal appearance of total Cys and Met was unaltered by HMTBA infusion, but net splanchnic appearance of Cys increased (0.04, 0.08, 0.23 mmol/h, SEM = 0.05), whereas Met decreased (0.14, –0.01, –0.21 mmol/h, SED = 0.05). Despite this, arterial Met increased (27.0, 30.7, 51.5 µM, SEM = 2.1) as did Met irreversible loss rate (27.6, 28.7, 40.1 µmol/h, SEM = 0.51), equivalent to 40% of the HMTBA reentering the plasma after conversion to Met. These data indicate that, in ruminants, HMTBA is probably converted to Met within peripheral tissues; that is, where the metabolic need for Met exists.
Key Words: 2-hydroxy-4-methylthiobutyrate • methionine • cysteine • lamb
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