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Effect of dietary protein level on some key enzymes of the tryptophan-NAD pathway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2018

U. Satyanarayana  and
B. S. Narasinga Rao
U. Satyanarayana
Affiliation:
National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai-Osmania, Hyderabad-500 007, India
B. S. Narasinga Rao
Affiliation:
National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai-Osmania, Hyderabad-500 007, India
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  1. 1. Six groups of rats were given diets containing protein at three levels (SO, 100 and 200 g/kg), with and without nicotinic acid. After 4 weeks on these diets some key enzymes of the tryptophan and nicotinic acid-NAD pathway, liver nicotinamide nucleotide concentration, and urinary metabolites of tryptophan and nicotinic acid were studied.

  2. 2. Liver nicotinamide nucleotide levels were lower in rats given the diet with 50 g protein/kg as compared to those in rats given diets with 100 and 200 g protein/kg. The addition of nicotinic acid to the diet resulted in a significant increase in the levels of nicotinamide nucleotides only in rats given 50 g protein/kg diet but not in those given either 100 or 200 g protein/kg diet.

  3. 3. Liver tryptophan oxygenase (EC 1.13.1.12) activity increased with increasing dietary protein level. Nicotinic acid in the diet had no effect on its activity.

  4. 4. Quinolinate phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.a) activity in liver was inversely related to dietary protein level, and nicotinic acid in the diet had no effect on its activity.

  5. 5. Liver nicotinate phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.11) activity and kidney picolinate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.45) activity were not altered either by dietary protein level or nicotinic acid in the diet.

  6. 6. The addition of nicotinic acid to the diet resulted in increased excretion of W-methylnicotinamide at all dietary protein levels.

  7. 7. The inverse relationship between protein level in the diet and liver quinolinate phosphoribosyltransferase activity, the rate-limiting enzyme of the tryptophan-NAD pathway suggests that the efficiency of conversion of tryptophan to NAD is related to protein level in the diet, the efficiency decreasing with an increase in the level of dietary protein.

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Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , July 1977 , pp. 39 - 45
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1977

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