Resistance of proline-containing peptides to ruminal degradation in vitro.

AUTOR(ES)

Yang, C M

RESUMO

Mixed ruminal bacteria utilized an enzymatic digest of casein at a rate faster than that for an enzymatic digest of gelatin, but neither amino acid source was completely utilized even when the incubation period was as long as 96 h. Since the reaction of ninhydrin with the residual nonammonia, nonprotein nitrogen was more than twofold stronger when the samples were hydrolyzed with 6 N HCl, it appeared that much of the residual nitrogen was from peptides. Approximately 66% of the nonammonia, nonprotein, ninhydrin-reactive material could not be recovered as amino acids, but there was a significant decrease in total amino acid nitrogen when the samples were pretreated with a C18 Sep-Pak column to remove peptides. The resistant peptides had an abundance of proline, and subsequent incubations showed that synthetic dipeptides which contained proline were hydrolyzed slowly. Lysine appears to be the amino acid which is most apt to limit ruminant production. Dipeptides containing proline and lysine were hydrolyzed at least fivefold slower than lysine-alanine. Methionine, another potentially limiting amino acid, was also degraded at a slower (2.5-fold) rate when it was present as part of a proline dipeptide.

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