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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 280: E947-E955, 2001;
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Vol. 280, Issue 6, E947-E955, June 2001

Measurement of intracellular sulfur amino acid metabolism in humans

Michael J. MacCoss, Naomi K. Fukagawa, and Dwight E. Matthews

Departments of Medicine and Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405

Methionine metabolism forms homocysteine via transmethylation. Homocysteine is either 1) condensed to form cystathionine, which is cleaved to form cysteine, or 2) remethylated back to methionine. Measuring this cycle with the use of isotopically labeled methionine tracers is problematic, because the tracer is infused into and measured from blood, whereas methionine metabolism occurs inside cells. Because plasma homocysteine and cystathionine arise from intracellular metabolism of methionine, plasma homocysteine and cystathionine enrichments can be used to define intracellular methionine enrichment during an infusion of labeled methionine. Eight healthy, postabsorptive volunteers were given a primed continuous infusion of [1-13C]methionine and [methyl-2H3]methionine for 8 h. Enrichments in plasma methionine, [13C]homocysteine and [13C]cystathionine were measured. In contrast to plasma methionine enrichments, the plasma [13C]homocysteine and [13C]cystathionine enrichments rose to plateau slowly (rate constant: 0.40 ± 0.03 and 0.49 ± 0.09 h-1, respectively). The enrichment ratios of plasma [13C]homocysteine to [13C]methionine and [13C]cystathionine to [13C]methionine were 58 ± 3 and 54 ± 3%, respectively, demonstrating a large intracellular/extracellular partitioning of methionine. These values were used to correct methionine kinetics. The corrections increase previously reported rates of methionine kinetics by ~40%.

homocysteine; methionine; kinetics; stable isotopes


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