Screening of toxicity biomarkers for methionine excess in rats.
J Nutr
; 136(6 Suppl): 1716S-1721S, 2006 06.
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Although many animal studies have reported that dietary excess of methionine causes toxic changes including growth suppression and hemolytic anemia, the biochemical mechanism and biomarkers for methionine toxicity have not been well elucidated. The present study aimed to identify toxicity biomarkers from plasma metabolites in rats fed excessive methionine. Young growing rats were fed graded doses of additional methionine for 2 wk. Cluster analysis of multivariate correlations was performed on the physiological and toxicity variables with plasma metabolites detected by GC/MS, amino acid analyzer, and thiol-specific analysis. Indicative variables for hemolysis such as splenic nonheme iron content and plasma bilirubin were grouped in the same cluster as many methionine metabolites. Homocysteine and some undefined metabolites in this cluster were found to be strong discriminators between nontoxic and toxic levels of methionine intake. Product-to-precursor ratios of each methionine metabolite demonstrated that excessive methionine intake caused a marked decrease only in the ratio of cystathionine to homocysteine, suggesting that metabolism from homocysteine to cystathionine would be rate limiting in the disposal of excessive methionine. Collectively from these results, homocysteine appeared to be the most plausible biomarker to assess methionine excess as a surrogate marker both for toxicity and for setting a metabolic upper limit.
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Colección:
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Biomarcadores
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Metionina
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Nutr
Año:
2006
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Japón
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos