Effects of excess of dietary methionine (6.5 and 8.5 g kgG1 diet) and lysine (13.5 and 15.5 g kgG1 diet) on performance, blood lipid profile and litter quality of broiler chickens fed corn-soybean meal based diet with or without supplementation of L-carnitine with two levels (175 and 350 mg kgG1 diet) were investigated. Two hundred forty one day old chicks (Cobb) of mixed sex were housed in pen...

To determine the rates of methionine splanchnic uptake and utilization in critically ill pediatric patients we used two kinetic models: the plasma methionine enrichment and the "intracellular" homocysteine enrichment. Twenty four patients, eight infants, eight children, and eight adolescents, were studied. They received simultaneous, primed, constant, intravenous infusions of l-[(2)H(3)]methylm...

The solute-solvent interactions of L-Cysteine and L-Methionine have been studied pH metrically in various concentrations (0.060.0% v/v) 1, 4-Dioxane-water mixture maintaining an ionic strength of 0.16 mol L-1 at ambient conditions. The protonation constants have been calculated with the computer program MINIQUAD75 and the best fit chemical models are selected based on statistical parameters. Li...

The conversion of methionine to cyst(e)ine was determined in sheep infused with different amounts of methionine (0-5 g/d) into the duodenum by assaying the incorporation of 35S from intravenously-infused L-[35S]methionine into cyst(e)ine in wool, plasma albumin and the free plasma pool. The percentage of cystine-S in the plasma originating from methionine increased linearly from 4.5 to 18 with ...

Six purified amino acid diets containing 6.0 g cystine/kg and the following levels of L-methionine (g/kg diet): 2.1, 2.7, 3.3, 3.9, 4.5, 9.0 were presented to twelve weanling kittens (six male and six female) for six periods of 10 d each. Kittens were assigned to the diets in accordance with a 6 x 6 balanced Latin-square design. Body-weight gains of males and females attained apparent plateaux ...

1. Preparations ofmouse ascites-tumour cells depleted ofATP and Na+ ions accumulated L-methionine, in the presence of cyanide and deoxyglucose, from a 1mm solution containing 80mequiv. of Na+/1 and about 5mequiv. of K+/l. Valinomycin increased, from about 4 to 16, the maximum value of the ratio of the cellular to extracellular concentrations of methionine formed under these conditions without m...

In this study, the antibacterial and cytotoxic activities of some amino acid methyl esters (L-methionine, L-phenylalanine, L-histidine, L-lysine, L-tryptophan, L-tyrosine) were investigated. The effect ester compounds on performance was determinated against Gram-negative Gram-positive bacteria. cell viability investigated cancerous non-cancerous lines using MTS assay. results showed substances ...

The antibiotic fosfomycin was produced as a secondary metabolite in a glucose-asparagine medium containing citrate, l-methionine, and l-glutamate. The citrate requirement for antibiotic synthesis was related to its requirement for growth. In contrast, l-methionine and l-glutamate caused a marked stimulation of fosfomycin production and had no effect on growth. l-Methionine had to be added early...

Methionine is often the first limiting amino acid for growing cattle. This study was conducted to determine how methionine metabolism is regulated in the liver of growing steers. Six ruminally cannulated steers were used in a replicated 3 × 3 Latin square experiment. Either 0, 5, or 10 g/day L-methionine was infused into the abomasum. These treatments were designed to be deficient, adequate, an...

Cancer is an increasing cause of mortality and morbidity throughout the world. L-methionase has potential application against many types of cancers. L-Methionase is an intracellular enzyme in bacterial species, an extracellular enzyme in fungi, and absent in mammals. L-Methionase producing bacterial strain(s) can be isolated by 5,5'-dithio-bis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid) as a screening dye. L-Methion...