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  • Title: [The lipogenic role of leucine in animal skeletal muscles].
    Author: Vovk SI, Ianovich VG.
    Journal: Biokhimiia; 1990 Nov; 55(11):2090-4. PubMed ID: 2085621.
    Abstract:
    After incubation of rat, pig and cattle skeletal muscle homogenates with [U-14C]leucine, 80.4%, 37.0% and 57.0% of radioactivity was found in the proteins, 9.4%, 58.7% and 40.9% in the lipids, and 10.2%, 4.3% and 2.1% in 14CO2. This suggests that along-side with utilization in protein synthesis, leucine plays an essential role in lipid synthesis in muscle tissues of agricultural animals. The contribution of [U-14C]leucine to lipogenesis with substrates is greater than that of [U-14C]acetate and [U-14C]glucose in cattle skeletal muscles in vitro and greater than that of [U-14C]acetate in pig muscle. The CO2 production during oxidation of the [U-14C]leucine carbohydrate chain is higher than that during [U-14C]glucose and [U-14C]palmitate oxidation in skeletal muscles of rat and pig. In skeletal muscles of all animal species under study [U-14C]acetate is oxidized far more intensively than the other substrates tested.
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