Milk and dairy products: dietary partners for life?
Rumen protected methyl donors and the genome beyond nutrigenomics
1. Rumen-protected methyl donors
and the genome: beyond
nutrigenomics
Juan J. Loor, Zheng Zhou, and Mario Vailati-Riboni
Department of Animal Sciences, Division of Nutritional Sciences,
and Illinois Informatics Institute
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
XXI ASPA Congress
June 9‐12, 2015
Milan, Italy
5. Substrate = e.g. CpG site
SAM = S‐adenosylmethionine
DNMT = DNA methyl
transferase
Methyl donor cycle regulation: non‐ruminants
MAT1A
+
+
‐
ATP
MAT1A control:
Genome level
Promoter methylation (Huh‐7 cells) (Tomasi et al., 2012)
Certain microRNA ↓ mRNA (Yang et al., 2012)
Enzyme level
Feed‐forward activation by Met (sheep) (Xue and Snoswell, 1989)
Feed‐back inhibition by SAM (sheep) (Xue and Snoswell, 1989)
(e.g. GNMT, DNMT)
ROM
‐
↑ Metabolism
↑ Oxidative stress
BHMT+MTR +
Glutathione+
Oxidase
7. History of rumen‐protection: amino acids and choline
Journal of Dairy Science papers:
1968 ‐ First paper in JDS: Griel, Patton, McCarthy and Chandler “Milk production
response to feeding methionine‐hydroxy analog (MHA) to lactating cows”
1970: Broderick, Kowalzyk and Satter “Milk production response to supplementation
with encapsulated methionine per os or casein per abomasum” (Delmar Chemical,
Ontario)
2006: Rulquin et al. “Effect of different forms of methionine on lactation
performance of dairy cows”
2007: Cooke et al. “Supplemental choline for prevention and alleviation of fatty liver
in dairy cattle”
2011: Chen et al. “Effect of feeding different sources of rumen protected methionine
on milk production and N utilization in lactating dairy cows”
2011: Zom et al. “Effect of rumen‐protected choline on performance, blood
metabolites, and hepatic triacylglycerols of periparturient dairy cattle”
Also,
Noftsger and St‐Pierre (2003), Noftsger et al. (2005), Socha et al. (2005),
St‐Pierre and Sylvester (2005), Ordway et al. (2009), Appuhamy et al. (2011),
Lee et al. (2012), Osorio et al. (2013), Osorio et al. (2014ab)
14. Better performance with Methionine
Parameter
Diet
SE
P‐value
Control MetaSmart Smartamine Diet Met Par Time D×T
Milk yield (kg/d) 35.7 38.1 40.0 1.6 0.15 0.08 ‐‐ <0.01 0.86
Milk fat (%) 4.27 4.68 4.09 0.22 0.59 0.36 .05 <0.01 0.01
Milk protein (%) 3.04 3.26 3.19 0.08 0.13 0.05 ‐‐ <0.01 0.23
Milk fat
yield (kg/d) 1.64 1.84 1.81 0.08 0.11 0.04 ‐‐ 0.04 0.01
Milk protein
Yield (kg/d) 1.11 1.23 1.24 0.05 0.08 0.03 ‐‐ 0.02 0.14
ECM (kg/d) 41.0 44.8 45.0 1.55 0.09 0.03 ‐‐ <0.01 0.07
Milk yield and components
Met = Control vs MetaSmart + Smartamine
(Osorio et al., 2013)
15. Day after parturition
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
kg/d
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
Control
Methionine
Choline
Recent experiment confirms the benefit of
rumen‐protected Methionine
• Dry matter intake during last 3 wk prepartum
greater (1‐2 kg/d) with Methionine
• Milk protein % greater with Methionine
• Lower inflammatory and oxidative stress status
Day aftyer parturition
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
kg/d
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
55
Control
Methionine
Choline
Dry matter intakeMilk productionMet P = 0.03
Chol P = 0.41
Day P < 0.01
Met P = 0.02
Chol P = 0.90
Day P < 0.01
(Zhou et al., 2015 Abs. 455, JAM Orlando, FL, USA)
22. Transcription regulator Function Frequency
FBJ osteosarcoma oncogene (FOS) Regulates cell proliferation,
differentiation, and transformation
Associated with apoptosis
7 of 18
Ets homologous factor (EHF) Repressor of cellular differentiation 6 of 18
Kruppel‐like factor 4 (KLF4) Repressor of cellular proliferation
Promotes cell survival
6 of 18
Kruppel‐like factor 5 (KLF4) Transcriptional activator
Promotes and suppresses cell
proliferation and cell growth
6 of 18
v‐myc avian myelocytomatosis viral
oncogene homolog (MYC)
Regulates cell cycle progression,
apoptosis, and cellular transformation
6 of 18
Top 5 most-frequently affected transcription
regulators with rumen-protected Methionine
(Zhou et al., in review)
23. At day 7 postpartum
EHF down-regulated 2.4-fold in
cows fed Methionine vs. control
Biological meaning of transcription regulator
networks?
At day 7 vs. -10 d postpartum
EHF down-regulated 1.7-fold in
cows fed Methionine
• Methionine could have direct anti-
inflammatory role through EHF
30. Methylation status
mRNA expression
• These were newborn piglets
• Functional outcome on gluconeogenic flux was small
• Longer-term study needed e.g. through weaning transition