title: [The lipogenic role of leucine in animal skeletal muscles].
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.
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Vovk
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Ianovich
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D005260:Female; D007930:Leucine / Q000378:metabolism*; D008055:Lipids / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids; D007930:Leucine
vernacular_title: Lipogennaia rol' leĭtsina v skeletnykh myshtsakh zhivotnykh.