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Is methionine transaminated in skeletal muscle?
1Department of Animal Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
The Biochemical Journal
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Methionine transamination is extensive in rat and chick skeletal-muscle homogenates, but is barely detectable in intact rat, but not chick, skeletal muscles. Branched-chain amino acids essentially block methionine transamination in intact muscles and homogenates from both species. The physiological significance of methionine transamination in skeletal muscle is questioned.