Affiliation:
1. Universität Hohenheim, Institut für Biologische Chemie und Ernährungswissenschaften, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany
2. Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Abteilung Innere Medizin I, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany
Abstract
1. We assessed the efficacy of nitrogen absorption from luminal L-leucine (1.2 and 12 mmol/l) and from isonitrogenous l-leucyl-l-leucine (0.6 and 6.0 mmol/l) in a preparation of vascularly and luminally perfused rat small intestine by measuring luminal leucyl-leucine disappearance and venous leucine appearance.
2. No intact dipeptide was found in the vascular perfusate. Leucine-nitrogen absorption, as judged by venous leucine appearance, was as efficient from free leucine (29 ± 3 and 245 ± 19 ng-atom min−1 g−1) as from leucyl-leucine (27 ± 4 and 211 ± 58 ng-atom min−1 g−1). It was not reduced in the presence of glycyl-l-proline or of the brush-border dipeptidase inhibitors alanine-β-naphthylamide and cilastatin.
3. After one passage of the whole small intestine, only trace amounts of dipeptide, but large amounts of free leucine, were detected in the luminal effluent. Peptidase activity in the luminal effluent was demonstrated in 100000 g supernatant and was inhibited by p-hydroxymercuribenzoate, but not by brush-border dipeptidase inhibitors.
4. We propose that nitrogen absorption from luminal leucyl-leucine may proceed predominantly via intraluminal peptide hydrolysis and subsequent transport of free leucine. Nevertheless, our findings and conclusions are at variance with previous observations and current opinion on intestinal handling of dipeptides, which may be due, in part, to the different methodological approach.
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