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Effect of dietary methionine on tissue selenium and glutathione peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9) activity in rats given selenomethionine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Ingo H. Waschulewski  and
Roger A. Sunde
Ingo H. Waschulewski
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, and Nutritional Sciences Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Roger A. Sunde
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, and Nutritional Sciences Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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1. The effect of dietary methionine on the utilization of selenium from dietary selenomethionine ([Se]Met) for tissue Se deposition and for glutathione peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9; GSH-Px) synthesis was studied in male weanling rats.

2. When rats were given 0.5 mg Se as [Se]Met/kg diet supplemented with 0, 4 or 9 g methionine/kg, Se in plasma, erythrocytes, liver and muscle increased significantly over the 20 d period for all methionine-treatment groups. The increases in erythrocyte and muscle Se, however, were significantly higher in rats fed on the methionine-deficient diet compared with the methionine-supplemented diets.

3. In contrast to the increases in tissue Se, GSH-Px activity in liver, plasma and muscle decreased in methionine-deficient rats given 0.5 mg Se as [Se]Met/kg whereas GSH-Px activity was maintained or increased in rats supplemented with methionine.

4. The percentage of tissue Se associated with GSH-Px was calculated from the measured Se concentration and GSH-Px activity. A significantly lower percentage of Se was associated with GSH-Px in methionine-deficient rats compared with methionine-supplemented rats.

5. These results show that Se from dietary [Se]Met is preferentially incorporated into body proteins rather than used for GSH-Px synthesis when methionine is limiting in the diet.

6. These results further suggest that [Se]Met might not be the optimum Se compound to use for Se supplementation because metabolism of dietary [Se]Met to a biochemically active form, such as GSH-Px, was impaired when [Se]Met was provided in diets low in methionine.

Type
Other Studies Relevant to Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , July 1988 , pp. 57 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1988

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