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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 273, Issue 3 E564-E570, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society
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O. H. Ljungqvist, M. Persson, G. C. Ford and K. S. Nair
Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA.
Current models to measure muscle protein synthesis in humans assume a homogeneous intracellular amino acid pool. This assumption was tested by measuring the isotopic enrichment of leucine and its transamination product alpha-ketoisocaproate (KIC) in plasma and muscle tissue fluid and comparing them with that of leucyl-tRNA during a continuous infusion of L-[1-13C]leucine in 12 healthy subjects. Six subjects were studied twice while drinking a carbohydrate (0.42 kcal/kg) drink every 20 min for 11 h or the same volume of water. Six others took an isocaloric mixed meal providing 14 mg protein/kg every 20 min and water. Enrichment of plasma and tissue fluid KIC and plasma leucine was consistently higher than that of leucyl-tRNA and tissue fluid leucine (P < 0.01), whereas the enrichment of leucyl-tRNA was equivalent to that of tissue fluid leucine in all experiments. Furthermore, the ratio of enrichment of leucyl-tRNA to that of plasma leucine and KIC decreased after the mixed meal, whereas that of leucyl-tRNA to tissue fluid leucine remained constant. The enrichment of KIC was closer (approximately 17% lower) to that of plasma leucine than that of leucyl-tRNA (approximately 43% higher), indicating that the transamination pool derived more leucine from extracellular sources than the acylation pool. We conclude that the use of plasma KIC enrichment as a surrogate measure of leucyl-tRNA enrichment substantially underestimates muscle protein synthetic rates in humans, whereas tissue fluid leucine enrichment is a valid surrogate measure. In addition, the differences in enrichment of leucyl-tRNA and KIC support a regulated cytoplasmic trafficking of leucine in muscle cells.
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