Manning N J, Pollitt R J
Biochem J. 1985 Oct 15;231(2):481-4. doi: 10.1042/bj2310481.
Two human subjects were given separate oral doses of sodium [2H6]isobutyrate and [methyl-2H3]thymine and the labelling patterns of urinary metabolites were determined. Ingestion of deuterated isobutyrate resulted in the excretion of 2H5-labelled S-3-hydroxyisobutyric acid, formed on the direct catabolic pathway, and of S- and R-[2H4]-3-hydroxyisobutyric acids, formed by the reduction of S- and R-methylmalonic semialdehydes respectively. Only the R-enantiomer of urinary 3-hydroxyisobutyric acid was labelled by thymine. This labelling pattern indicates a flow from S- to R-methylmalonic semialdehyde, suggesting that the R-enantiomer is the substrate of methylmalonic semialdehyde dehydrogenase.
给两名人类受试者分别口服[2H6]异丁酸钠和[甲基-2H3]胸腺嘧啶,并测定尿液代谢物的标记模式。摄入氘代异丁酸盐导致直接分解代谢途径上形成的2H5标记的S-3-羟基异丁酸以及分别由S-和R-甲基丙二酸半醛还原形成的S-和R-[2H4]-3-羟基异丁酸的排泄。只有尿液中3-羟基异丁酸的R-对映体被胸腺嘧啶标记。这种标记模式表明从S-甲基丙二酸半醛流向R-甲基丙二酸半醛,表明R-对映体是甲基丙二酸半醛脱氢酶的底物。