Dietary guanidino acetic acid spares arginine and dietary l-homoserine spares threonine in the chick

Bryant-Angeloni, Kasey I.

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Title

Dietary guanidino acetic acid spares arginine and dietary l-homoserine spares threonine in the chick

Author(s)

Bryant-Angeloni, Kasey I.

Issue Date

2010-05-19T18:39:01Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

• Parsons, Carl M.
• Baker, David H.

Department of Study

Animal Sciences

Discipline

Animal Sciences

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

M.S.

Degree Level

Thesis

Keyword(s)

• Guanidino acetic acid
• L-Homoserine
• spares
• Arginine
• Threonine
• chick

Abstract

Guanidino acetic acid (GAA) is synthesized in the liver and kidney from Arg and Gly. It is subsequently methyllated by S-adenosylmethione to creatine. L-Homoserine (HS) has been identified as an intermediate compound in the metabolism of Thr, Met, and Asp. Bacteria, plants and yeast can synthesize Thr and Met from HS, but this has not been shown in higher organisms. Several bioassays were carried out to determine the capacity of GAA to spare dietary Arg or HS to spare dietary Thr. Crossbred chicks were fed Arg-deficient dextrose-casein (0.86% Arg), Arg-deficient corn-corn coproduct-soybean meal (1.0% Arg), Thr-deficient dextrose-casein (0.22% Thr), or Thr-deficient corn-peanut meal (0.46%) basal diets during 9-d battery feeding trials involving 5 pens of 4 chicks per treatment. Growth and gain:feed responses were obtained when GAA was added to a purified Arg-deficient diet and when HS was added to both Thr-deficient diets. In the corn-corn coproduct-soybean meal diet, GAA yielded a gain:feed response, but not an increase in gain. These results demonstrate that 0.12% supplemental GAA, like creatine, produces consistent growth and feed efficiency responses in young chicks fed Arg-deficient diets and indicate that low levels of HS (0.08-0.1%) elicit a growth and feed efficiency response in young chicks fed Thr-deficient diets.

Graduation Semester

2010-5

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