BLOOD AND TISSUE BRANCHED-CHAIN AMINO AND ALPHA-KETO ACID CONCENTRATIONS - EFFECT OF DIET, STARVATION, AND DISEASE
BLOOD AND TISSUE BRANCHED-CHAIN AMINO AND ALPHA-KETO ACID CONCENTRATIONS - EFFECT OF DIET, STARVATION, AND DISEASE
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DOI:
10.1093/ajcn/34.2.173
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
7.1
通讯作者:
HARPER, AE
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作者:
HUTSON, SM;HARPER, AE
Branched-chain .alpha.-keto and amino acid (BCKA, BCAA) concentrations were measured in blood, plasma and tissues of rats fed low protein (8% casein) or high protein (60% casein) diets; and in rats fed a stock diet and subjected to 3 days of starvation or chemically-induced diabetes. Concentrations of these amino and ketoacids were measured in blood from patients with maple syrup urine disease. Valine, isoleucine and leucine concentrations in blood from rats fed the stock diet were 124 .+-. 7, 58 .+-. 4 and 99 .+-. 5 .mu.M, respectively. Blood BCAA concentrations of rats fed the high protein diet and diabetic rats were elevated 2- to 3-fold; small increases were observed in blood from starved rats. Changes in blood BCAA concentrations paralleled those in tissues, except in starved rats in which the skeletal muscle free BCAA pool increased proportionately more than the circulating pool. Mean blood BCKA concentrations of rats fed the stock diet were low; 7.9 .+-. 0.5, 7.1 .+-. 0.4 and 12.4 .+-. 0.7 .mu.M for .alpha.-ketoisovaleric, .alpha.-keto-.beta.-methylvaleric and .alpha.-ketoisocaproic acids, respectively. All treatments resulted in increases in blood BCKA concentrations of from 1.4 to 2-fold. Liver and heart concentrations of BCKA, except for that of .alpha.-ketoisocaproic acid, were near the limits of detection (< 1 nmol/g). There was significant accumulation of all 3 BCKA in skeletal muscle which was estimated to contain .apprx. 80% of the measured body free BCKA pool. Blood BCKA are well regulated. Only in patients with maple syrup urine disease are plasma concentrations of BCKA useful indicators of altered tissue BCAA metabolism. Sketal muscle, where oxidation of the BCKA is limited by low BCKA dehydrogenase activity, is probably the major source of circulating BCKA.