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Incorporating turn-over in whole body protein retention ef.ciency in pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Z. Roux
Z. Roux
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, Republic of South Africa E-mail: lhermann@postino.up.ac.za
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Abstract

The magnitude of the discrepancy between conventional regression estimates of protein retention efficiency and theoretical estimates of synthesis efficiency indicates a major contribution ascribable to protein turn-over in the generally accepted estimates. As protein turn-over is known to be influenced by diet, feeding level and degree of maturity, this suggests the development of an estimator of protein efficiency that can be adapted for such differences. Therefore, based on generally accepted formulas for growth description, a method of estimating protein retention efficiency was developed which is flexible enough to accommodate different diets, feeding levels and degrees of maturity. Moreover, a formula was derived to convert one type of estimate to the other by regarding constant efficiency as equivalent to variable efficiency at the mid point of the estimation interval. Increase in scientific depth to this descriptive approach is provided by a theoretical consideration of a possible mechanism of hormonal control of protein synthesis and breakdown, ultimately expressed as proportionalities to powers of whole body protein (P). Molecular considerations on cellular synthesis and breakdown indicate a difference between breakdown and synthesis powers equal to (2/9)Q. The factor (2/9) is indicated by an argument based on insulinlike growth factor derived activator diffusion attributes by nucleus and body tissue geometries, while Q is equal to the proportion of nuclei activated by insulin-like growth factor. This proportion is likely to be a function of the concentration of growth factor in the blood. Hence, a linear relationship between intake and blood insulin-like growth factor concentration suggests that Q can be represented by a scaled transformation of intake, 0 ≤ Q ≤ 1, such that a value of Q = 1 represents ad libitum intake on a suitable diet and Q = 0 intake at the maintenance requirement. The quantification of breakdown and synthesis power differences by (2/9)Q leads to kP = {1 + [1 − (P/α)(2/9)Q]−1/6}−1, for turn-over related protein retention efficiency (kP), with α the limit value of P at maturity, so that 0 ≤ (P/α) ≤ 1. Experimental estimates, derived from direct estimates of whole body protein synthesis and breakdown at predetermined levels of intake, are in excellent agreement with the theoretical (2/9)Q in the power associated with (P/α) in kP. Furthermore, conventional multiple regression retention efficiencies satisfactorily approximate the turn-over related retention efficiency that can be calculated at a given level of intake for the mid point of the interval covered by the regression estimates.

Keywords

pigsprotein retentionprotein turn-over
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Research Article
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Animal Science , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 71 - 81
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 2005

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