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  • Title: Perturbation of methionine metabolism in sheep with nitrous-oxide-induced inactivation of cobalamin.
    Author: Xue GP, Snoswell AM, Runciman WB.
    Journal: Biochem Int; 1986 Jan; 12(1):61-9. PubMed ID: 2868723.
    Abstract:
    Exposure of sheep to 36% nitrous oxide for 8 days (2-hr per day) led to 90%, 82% and 74% inhibition of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase in the liver, heart and brain, respectively, while there was no significant decrease in the activity of methylmalonyl-CoA mutase. There was also no change of betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase activity. The level of plasma methionine in nitrous-oxide-exposed sheep fell to 30% of its initial value. S-Adenosylmethionine level was reduced to 50% of the control value in the liver, and was also significantly decreased in the heart, but not in the brain. Excretion of formiminoglutamic acid and homocystine was also observed in the urine of sheep exposed to nitrous oxide. These results demonstrate that inhibition of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase causes a pronounced perturbation of methionine metabolism in sheep, suggesting that dietary methionine plus methionine synthesized from the methyl groups of betaine are not sufficient to meet the methyl needs for biological methylation reactions in this species and, in turn, emphasizing the role of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase in methionine synthesis in the sheep.
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