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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 280: E857-E866, 2001;
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Vol. 280, Issue 6, E857-E866, June 2001

Use of sulfate production as a measure of short-term sulfur amino acid catabolism in humans

Mazen J. Hamadeh and L. John Hoffer

Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal H3T 1E2; and School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada

There is no fully satisfactory method for measuring amino acid catabolism in the nonsteady state that follows normal protein consumption. Because sulfate is the major product of sulfur amino acid catabolism, we tested whether its production can be accurately depicted using simple tracer or nontracer approaches under basal conditions and after the intravenous administration of a known amount of sulfate. In the basal postabsorptive state, serum sulfate concentration and urinary sulfate excretion remained constant for many hours, but the apparent steady-state serum sulfate rate of appearance achieved with primed continuous oral administration of sodium [34S]sulfate was 20% higher than urinary sulfate excretion. By contrast, after magnesium sulfate infusion, the increase in sulfate production above basal accounted for 95% over 6 h and 98% over 9 h of the administered dose when measured simply as urinary inorganic sulfate excretion corrected for changes in its extracellular fluid content. Using the latter method, we measured sulfate production after oral methionine and intravenous infusion of methionine in a mixture of other essential amino acids. Sulfate production above basal accounted for 59% over 6 h and 75% over 9 h of the oral methionine dose. Similar results were obtained with the mixed amino acid infusion, but interpretation of the latter experiment was limited by the mild protein sparing (and, hence, reduced endogenous sulfate production) induced by the amino acid infusion. We conclude that a simple nontracer method can provide an accurate measure of sulfate production and, hence, sulfur amino acid catabolism over collection periods as short as 6 h after a test meal. A significant portion of the sulfur derived from methionine appears to be retained in nonprotein compounds immediately after its ingestion.

stable isotope; amino acid oxidation; methionine; fed state


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