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标题：Vitamin C Is Not Essential for Carnitine Biosynthesis in Vivo: Verification in Vitamin C-Depleted Senescence Marker Protein-30/Gluconolactonase Knockout Mice
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作者：Hajime Furusawa ; Yasunori Sato ; Yasukazu Tanaka 等
期刊名称：Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
印刷版ISSN：0918-6158
电子版ISSN：1347-5215
出版年度：2008
卷号：31
期号：9
页码：1673-1679
DOI：10.1248/bpb.31.1673
出版社：The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
摘要：Carnitine is an essential cofactor in the transport of long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondrial matrix and plays an important role in energy production via β-oxidation. Vitamin C (VC) has long been considered a requirement for the activities of two enzymes in the carnitine biosynthetic pathway, i.e. , 6- N -trimethyllysine dioxygenase and γ-butyrobetaine dioxygenase. Our present study using senescence marker protein-30 (SMP30)/gluconolactonase (GNL) knockout (KO) mice, which cannot synthesize VC in vivo , led to the conclusion that this notion is not true. After weaning at 40 d of age, SMP30/GNL KO mice were fed a diet lacking VC and carnitine, then given water containing 1.5 g/l VC (VC(+) mice) or no VC (VC(−) mice) for 75 d. Subsequently, total VC and carnitine levels were measured in the cerebrum, cerebellum, liver, kidney, soleus muscle, extensor digitorum longus muscle, heart, plasma and serum. The total VC levels in all tissues and plasma from VC(−) SMP30/GNL KO mice were negligible, i.e. , <2% of the levels in SMP30/GNL KO VC(+) mice; however, the total carnitine levels of both groups were similar in all tissues and serum. In addition, carnitine was produced by incubated liver homogenates from the VC-depleted SMP30/GNL KO mice irrespective of the presence or absence of 1 m M VC. Collectively, these results indicate that VC is not essential for carnitine biosynthesis in vivo .
关键词：ascorbic acid;gluconolactonase;vitamin C;senescence marker protein-30;butyrobetaine;dioxygenase