title: Histidine and histamine metabolism in rat enterocytes.
abstract: To study the metabolic fate of L-histidine and histamine in rat isolated enterocytes, enterocytes were incubated in the presence of 0.1 mM L-[U-14C] histidine. At the rate of 11.1 +/- 2.7 pmol/10(6) cells/30 min, the amino acid was incorporated into cellular proteins. 80 microM cycloheximide, i.e. a protein synthesis inhibitor, inhibited this incorporation by 70 +/- 17%. L-histidine was used for cellular protein synthesis which depended on time and concentration. 0.1 mM L-[U-14C] histidine was little oxidized by intestinal cells, i.e. 0.12 +/- 0.06 pmol/10(6) cells/30 min, and was not converted into histamine. When 10 mM histamine was added to the incubation medium, it completely inhibited the incorporation of 0.1 mM [1,4-14C] putrescine into isolated enterocytes. In enterocyte homogenates, this corresponded to inhibition by histamine of putrescine incorporation as catalyzed by transglutaminase activity. Since histamine incorporation into TCA-precipitable material derived from enterocyte homogenates depended on time and concentration, we concluded that exogenous, but not de novo-formed histamine was able to compete with putrescine incorporation into enterocytes as catalyzed by transglutaminase activity.
authors.affiliation: Unité d'Ecologie et de Physiologie du Système Digestif, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guihot
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Blachier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006632:Histamine / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D006639:Histidine / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D011700:Putrescine / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D011503:Transglutaminases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D006639:Histidine; D006632:Histamine; D011503:Transglutaminases; D011700:Putrescine