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Microbial protein synthesis in cattle given roughage–concentrate and all-concentrate diets: the use of 2,6-diaminopimelic acid, 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid and 35S as markers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

F. G. Whitelaw ,
J. Margaret Eadie ,
L. A. Bruce  and
W. J. Shand
F. G. Whitelaw
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
J. Margaret Eadie
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
L. A. Bruce
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
W. J. Shand
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
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1. Three steers, each fitted with a rumen cannula and a re-entrant cannula in the proximal duodenum, were offered diets consisting of a barley-based concentrate and chopped hay at a daily intake of 61 g/kg live weight0-75 given in three. equal meals. The ratio, concentrate: hay was changed from 50: 50 to 90: 10 and then to 100: O in successive periods of 12–18 weeks and the flow and composition of digesta at the duodenum was measured over 48-h periods on each dietary treatment.

2. Samples of bacteria and protozoa were separated from rumen contents and the proportions of bacterial and protozoal nitrogen (N) in duodenal digesta were estimated using 2, ddiaminopimelic acid (DAPA) and 2- aminoethylphosphonic acid (AEP) as markers. On separate occasions, radioactive sulphur (35S) was infused into the rumen for 48 h and digesta collected over the final 24 h; the specific radioactivity of S in microbial and digesta fractions was used to estimate the proportions of microbial N.

3. 35S gave reproducible and apparently reliable estimates of microbial protein formation: the proportion of microbial N in digesta was significantly higher (P < 0.05) for the 50:50 diet than for the other treatments but the energetic efficiency of microbial protein formation did not differ significantly between diets.

4. Estimatesof bacterial N based on DAPA concentrations were highly variable and frequently impossibly high. It is suggested that many of the anomalous values were the result of non-representative sampling of the rumen microbial population and that this is particularly likely to occur when conditions within the rumen are unstable. AEP was found to be unsuitable as a marker for rumen protozoa as considerable concentrations of this substance were found also in rumen bacteria.

Type
Papers on General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , September 1984 , pp. 249 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1984

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