Is methionine transaminated in skeletal muscle? Academic Article

abstract

• Methionine transamination is extensive in rat and chick skeletal-muscle homogenates, but is barely detectable in intact rat, but not chick, skeletal muscles. Branched-chain amino acids essentially block methionine transamination in intact muscles and homogenates from both species. The physiological significance of methionine transamination in skeletal muscle is questioned.

authors

• Wu, Guoyao

published proceedings

• Biochem J

author list (cited authors)

• Wu, G. Y., & Thompson, J. R.

citation count

• 15

complete list of authors

• Wu, GY||Thompson, JR

publication date

• January 1989

publisher

• Portland Press  Publisher

published in

• Biochemical Journal  Journal

keywords

• Amino Acids, Branched-chain
• Animals
• Chickens
• Methionine
• Muscles
• Rats
• Transaminases

PubMed Central ID

• 2920018

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1042/bj2570281

start page

• 281

end page

• 284

volume

• 257

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bj2570281