Effets de l’administration de précurseurs métaboliques du propionate à des rats carencés en biotine
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
- Vol. 24 (6) , 367-382
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000176355
Abstract
Biotin deficiency induced in the rat, with a biotin-deficient diet but with added avidin involves clinical symptoms of deficiency as well as an important drop (80%) in propionyl-CoA carboxylase activity in the liver, heart and kidneys. But major biochemical anomalies (ketoacidosis and increased urinary elimination of propionic acid), characteristic of propionic acidaemia due to propionyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency in man, are not observed in the rat. Nevertheless, abnormal urinary elimination of methylcitrate and tiglylglycine reflects an appreciable decrease in the metabolism of propionyl-CoA in these animals. The propionyl-CoA load caused by the administration of metabolic precursors of this substance, mainly L-isoleucine, does not induce important biochemical variations except for excretion of propionylglycine.Keywords
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