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(Journal of Nutrition. 2000;130:208-215.)
© 2000 The American Society for Nutritional Sciences


Article

Trans-Vaccenic Acid Is Desaturated to Conjugated Linoleic Acid in Mice1

Jamie E. Santora, Donald L. Palmquist2 and Karla L. Roehrig*

Departments of Animal Sciences, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH 44691 * Food Science and Nutrition, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

2To whom correspondence should be addressed.


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Mice were fed pure trans11 octadecenoic acid (trans-vaccenic acid; TVA) to determine whether it is desaturated to cis9, trans11 octadecadienoic acid, a predominant isomer of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). In a preliminary trial, 12% of the TVA consumed during a 2-wk feeding period was recovered in the carcass as CLA. As a proportion of TVA in the tissues available for bioconversion, 48.8% was desaturated. We tested whether desaturation could be modified by supplementing no modifier, 0.5% clofibric acid to stimulate desaturation, or increasing the polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) (10% corn oil vs. 4% corn oil) to inhibit desaturation in diets with or without 1% TVA. These diets were fed to six groups of mice in a 3 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. Feeding 1% TVA with 10% corn oil decreased feed intake (2.70 vs. 3.73 g/d, SEM 0.23; P < 0.05). Bioconversion of dietary TVA was 12.0, 7.5 and 5.1% for mice fed no modifier of desaturation, clofibrate and increased PUFA, respectively. Conversion based on TVA available for desaturation was 52.6, 55.5 and 37.0%, respectively. Thus, clofibrate did not increase bioconversion, but increasing PUFA decreased conversion by 30%. To test whether TVA decreases food intake directly or after conversion to CLA, four groups of mice were fed diets containing 1% stearic, TVA, elaidic or conjugated linoleic acid. Dietary CLA decreased food intake and body fat, but did not change body protein. CLA was found in the carcass only when TVA or CLA was fed. CLA was found in both triacylglycerol and phospholipids when CLA was fed, but only in triacylglycerol when TVA was fed, suggesting that bioconversion occurred in the adipose tissue. In three trials, conversion of dietary TVA to CLA was 11.4 ± 1.25%; conversion of stored TVA was 50.8 ± 1.91%. Similar bioconversion of TVA in humans would increase current estimates of CLA available for the general population by 6- to 10-fold.


KEY WORDS: • conjugated linoleic acid • trans-vaccenic acid • desaturation • rumenic acid • mice


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Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA)3 is a collective term for isomers of linoleic acid, which have been shown to have multiple physiologic effects, especially inhibition of breast cancer (Ha et al. 1990Citation , Ip et al. 1991Citation ). Some studies have implicated the cis9, trans11 isomer as physiologically most active (Belury 1995Citation ). However, more recent studies have shown the trans10, cis12 isomer specifically influences fat metabolism and body composition (Park et al. 1999bCitation ). The most important dietary source of CLA is milk fat, but it can be found also in other fat from ruminants (Chin et al. 1992Citation , Parodi, 1994Citation and 1997Citation ). Although the human dietary requirement for CLA, (if any) is unknown, extrapolation from animal studies suggests that human dietary intake may be less than adequate for optimal physiologic responses (Chin et al. 1992Citation , Ip et al. 1991Citation ).

On the basis of observations by Holman and Mahfouz (1981)Citation and Pollard et al. (1980)Citation , Parodi (1994)Citation proposed that cis9, trans11 18:2 (rumenic acid, a specific isomer of CLA; Kramer et al. 1998Citation ) could be produced endogenously from trans11 octadecenoic acid by {Delta}-9 desaturase (EC 1.14.99.5). Mahfouz et al. (1980)Citation , and Pollard et al. (1980)Citation described desaturation of trans monoenes to cis, trans 18:2 derivatives by {Delta}-9 desaturase. Trans11 18:1 (trans-vaccenic acid, TVA) is the predominant trans monoene in ruminant fats; it is formed by incomplete biohydrogenation of dietary fatty acids in the rumen (Noble et al. 1974Citation ).

Trans fatty acids in milk normally comprise ~2% of total fatty acids, but this can be increased to 4–10% of total fatty acids by increasing dietary unsaturated oils in the cow’s diet. Trans fatty acids in margarine and vegetable oils are formed by chemical hydrogenation; usually trans9 predominates in these (Dutton 1979Citation ). Intake of trans fatty acids was reviewed by Emken (1995)Citation ; although estimates range widely, he concluded that the total trans intake in the U.S. approximates 7–8% of total fatty acid intake. Intake of TVA is more difficult to estimate; Wolff (1995)Citation reported intakes in the European Economic Community of 1.3–1.8 g/d of trans-18:1 from ruminant fats, except for Spain and Portugal, which were estimated at 0.8 g/d. Therefore, on the basis of typical daily consumption of ruminant fats, daily intake of TVA by the Western population probably exceeds 1 g/d.

It is important to determine the extent to which dietary TVA may contribute to the body’s supply of CLA. Thus, we investigated whether TVA is a quantitatively important precursor of rumenic acid. Mice were chosen as the animal model because of the simplicity of working with total tissues and the high cost of pure TVA. The main objectives of these studies were to quantify the conversion of dietary TVA to rumenic acid in the whole animal and to determine whether conversion of TVA to CLA is influenced by metabolic modifiers, such as clofibrate, which has been reported to induce {Delta}-9 desaturase (Diczfalusy et al. 1995Citation ), and increased dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), which reportedly inhibit desaturation (Ntambi 1995Citation ). A secondary objective was to examine the effects of TVA on food intake.


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Protocols for animal use were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Laboratory Animal Care and Use Committee, The Ohio State University and conducted in accordance with the NIH guidelines (NRC 1985Citation ).

Animals and diets.

Female C57BL/6 mice (6–7 wk old) were obtained from Harlan Sprague Dawley (Indianapolis, IN). The mice were housed individually in plastic cages with wire mesh bottoms in a room with a 12-h light:dark cycle. Mice were fed and weighed daily at the end of the light cycle; the dark cycle began at 0800 h. Upon arrival, mice were conditioned to a powdered purified diet for 4 d, then randomly assigned to dietary treatments. The purified diets, prepared in the laboratory, were based on NRC requirements for mice (NRC 1995Citation ; Table 1Citation ), according to guidelines presented by Reeves et al. (1993)Citation . All experimental fatty acids were of >97% purity, obtained from Nu-Chek-Prep, Elysian, MN. Samples of diet taken during the experiment were composited for analysis.


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Table 1. Composition of the experimental diets

 
Preliminary study.

Eight mice (body weight 16.1 ± 0.51 g, mean ± SEM) were allotted randomly to two treatments with four replicates. Mice were given free access to water and diets containing either 0 or 1% TVA for 2 wk. Two additional mice were used to determine initial body composition and content of TVA and CLA.

Experiment 1.

Mice (n = 30; body weight 16.1 ± 0.61 g) were allotted randomly to six treatments with five replicates per treatment as follows: two levels of TVA (0 or 1%) and three effectors of {Delta}-9 desaturase activity (none, increased or decreased) in a 2 x 3 factorial arrangement of treatments. The effectors included no treatment (control), supplemental clofibrate (0.5%), a commonly used agent to induce desaturase activity (Diczfalusy et al. 1995Citation ), or additional PUFA (as 10% corn oil) reported to inhibit desaturase activity (Ntambi 1995Citation ). Diets without TVA contained 1% stearic acid to maintain fatty acid level without increasing unsaturated fatty acids. Mice were given free access to water and the experimental diets for 2 wk. Five mice were used to determine initial body composition and content of TVA and CLA.

Experiment 2.

Mice (n = 40; body weight 17.3 ± 0.49 g) were allotted randomly to 10 replicates of four treatments in a completely randomized design. Mice were given free access to water and purified diets containing 1% stearic acid, TVA, elaidic acid or CLA for 2 wk. The CLA was described by the supplier as {Delta}9, 11 and {Delta}10, 12 cis and trans isomers. Material from this supplier has been reported independently (Sehat et al. 1998Citation ) to be 29% c, t/t, c-10,12–18:2 and 29.5% c, t/t, c-9, 11–18:2, with the remainder being many other isomers. Six mice were used to determine initial body composition and content of stearic, trans-vaccenic, elaidic or conjugated linoleic acids.

Measures.

Body weights and food offered and refused were measured daily. Feces were collected nonquantitatively from the cage bottoms daily and pooled by treatment except for Experiment 2. All mice were killed by CO2 asphyxiation early in the dark cycle on d 14 (except those for initial body composition), 2–4 h after feeding. Immediately after asphyxiation, the abdomen was opened and contents of the stomach, intestines and cecum were removed to obtain empty carcass weight and to avoid carcass contamination with unabsorbed fatty acids. The carcass was freeze dried, chopped and ground in a blender with liquid nitrogen, and the dry weight was determined.

Dry matter and nitrogen determination.

Dry matter (DM) content of the carcass, diets and feces was determined after drying in a 100°C oven for 24 h. Total N in carcasses was determined by the Kjeldahl method (AOAC 1980Citation ); crude protein content of carcasses is reported as the percentage of N x 6.25.

Fatty acid determination.

Fatty acid contents (mg/g DM) and profiles (g/100 g of total fatty acid methyl esters) of carcasses were determined according to the sodium methoxide procedure for preparing methyl esters described by Christie (1982)Citation . Dried, ground carcass (250 mg; ~50 mg of lipid), 2 mL of internal standard (triheptadecanoin; 2.0 g 17:0/L benzene), and 2 mL diethyl ether were heated for 2 h at 70°C in a 70-mL sealed screw-capped tube. After cooling, 200 µL each of methyl acetate and 1 mol/L sodium methoxide in methanol were added. After agitation, the tubes were allowed to stand at room temperature for 5 min; then 300 µL of saturated oxalic acid in diethyl ether was added to stop the reaction. The tubes were agitated, centrifuged for 5 min at 2000 x g to precipitate sodium oxalate, and the methyl esters in solvent were transferred to 2-mL vials and sealed. Fatty acids were quantified by gas-liquid chromatography (GC; Hewlett Packard 5890A Gas Chromatograph, Santa Clarita, CA). Conditions were as follows: injector temperature 250°C, flame ionization detector 250°C, nitrogen carrier gas at 0.5 mL/min, detector make up gas (N2) at 20 mL/min, injector split ratio 1:100. The initial column temperature was 160°C, programmed at 3°C/min to a final temperature of 180°C. The column was 30 m x 0.32 mm fused silica, coated with SP2340 (Supelco, Bellefonte, PA). The detector signal was collected by a Hewlett-Packard 7673A controller, and analyzed and summarized by Hewlett-Packard 3365 Chemstation software.

Fatty acids in the diets and feces were methylated by the acetyl chloride procedure (Sukhija and Palmquist 1988Citation ) and quantified by GC as above.

Isomers were identified by authentic standards of each fatty acid (Nu-Chek-Prep), processed at the same time as unknowns. The retention time of elaidic acid was 15.4–15.6 min; the TVA retention time was 15.7–15.8 min, and the CLA retention time was 21.7–23 min. Recoveries of elaidic acid, TVA and CLA were 97–100%. Samples were analyzed in duplicate; <5% difference occurred between duplicate analyses.

Lipid extraction.

For each treatment group in Experiment 2, three carcasses were chosen randomly and pooled. An aliquot of 10 g of pooled carcass was homogenized with 120 mL of Radin solvent (hexane/isopropanol, 3:2, v/v) with a Polytron homogenizer (Brinkman Instruments, Westbury, NY) at 27,000 rpm for a total of 5 min (30 s on, 30 s off) at room temperature. The homogenate was filtered through Whatman #1 paper (Whatman, Clifton, NJ) into 70-mL screw-capped tubes. Organic and aqueous phases were separated by adding excess water to the filtrate; the sample was vortexed, then centrifuged for 5 min at 2000 x g. The hexane layer was adjusted to 100 mL with additional hexane.

Separation of lipid classes.

Lipid classes were separated on a 500-mg silicic acid column (#309250, Alltech Associates, Deerfield, IL), and aliquots were collected in eight fractions by serial solvent development. Fractions were identified with authentic standards (Nu-Chek-Prep), and purity was verified by spotting aliquots on 20 x 20 cm silica gel TLC plates (Whatman). Plates were developed with petroleum ether/diethyl ether/acetic acid (90:10:1). The tubes containing triacylglycerides and phospholipids were methylated by the acetyl chloride procedure described previously, and fatty acid profiles were determined by GC.

Calculations.

The net gain of CLA represents the difference between mean CLA in the carcass of groups of mice fed TVA and mean CLA in the carcass of groups of mice not fed TVA (treatment CLA in carcass - control CLA in carcass). The conversion of dietary TVA represents the net gain in the amount of CLA in the carcass of treatment groups as a percentage of TVA consumed {[carcass CLA (treatment - control)/dietary TVA] x 100}. The conversion of stored TVA is reported as the net gain in the amount of CLA found in the carcass of the treatment group as a percentage of TVA equivalents in the tissues (TVA equivalents = net gain of TVA + CLA). Dietary conversion depends on the total amount of fat in the body as well as proportion of TVA desaturated, whereas stored conversion is independent of the amount of body fat. Because groups were the experimental unit, no statistical confidence for conversion within experiments is possible.

Statistical analysis.

Data were analyzed by ANOVA using the general linear models procedure of SAS (1988)Citation . Treatment differences were analyzed for main effects (diet and modifiers) and interactions (diet x modifiers) for Experiment 1. For Experiment 2, treatment means separation was established by Student-Newman-Keuls test (Steel et al. 1997Citation ).


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Preliminary trial.

One mouse in the treatment group was lost by accident. Total food and fatty acid intakes were not affected by treatment (P < 0.05; Table 2Citation ); by design, intake of TVA was higher (P < 0.0001) for the experimental group. Total fat and TVA in feces was higher than those in control when TVA was fed (2.71 vs. 1.17% fat; 57.8 vs. 1.2% of fecal fatty acids, respectively). CLA accounted for 0.3% of the fecal fat in mice fed TVA, and 2.1% in controls. The net gain of CLA in the carcass of mice fed TVA was 38.8 mg (Table 2)Citation , or 12.3% of the net TVA consumed during the 14-d feeding period. Because the amount of TVA available in the tissues for desaturation is dependent upon absorption and oxidation, we also computed conversion as a percentage of retained TVA equivalents (see Materials and Methods). On this basis, 48.8% of TVA in tissues was found as CLA.


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Table 2. Food, fat and fatty acid intakes and body weight and composition of mice fed purified diets for 2 wk without or with 1% of trans-vaccenic acid (preliminary trial)1

 
Experiment 1: effect of metabolic modifiers on conversion of TVA to CLA.

Food intake was lower (P < 0.05) in mice fed 10% corn oil with 1% TVA, compared with those fed 4% corn oil without TVA (Table 3Citation ). Total fatty acid intake was higher when 10% corn oil was fed, and 1% TVA increased intake of this fatty acid, as planned.


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Table 3. Food and fatty acid intakes and body weight and composition of mice fed diets for 2 wk with or without trans-vaccenic acid and with or without clofibrate or increased polyunsaturated fatty acids (Experiment 1)1

 
The percentage of fatty acids in feces was influenced by treatments, and interactions occurred (P < 0.0001). Fecal fat was increased by feeding stearic acid (Table 4Citation ), and it was decreased by clofibrate (P < 0.05). The proportion of TVA in fecal fat was increased by its inclusion in the diet (P < 0.0001), and decreased by feeding clofibrate or 10% corn oil. The proportion of CLA in fecal fat was <1% and was not influenced by treatment (P > 0.05).


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Table 4. Fatty acid content of feces from mice fed diets with or without trans-vaccenic acid and with or without clofibrate or increased polyunsaturated fatty acids (Experiment 1)1

 
Protein and fat contents of the carcasses did not differ among treatments (Table 3)Citation . Effects of TVA (P < 0.001), metabolic modifier (P < 0.001) and the interaction of these (P < 0.001) were significant for carcass contents of TVA and CLA for mice fed both TVA and clofibrate. Both TVA and CLA in the carcass were higher when TVA was fed. Both clofibrate and 10% corn oil decreased the amounts of TVA and CLA in the carcass, compared with feeding no modifier of {Delta}-9 desaturase activity. The amount of TVA in the carcass of mice fed clofibrate was lower than that in mice fed control or 10% corn oil diets.

Net bioconversion of dietary TVA to CLA was 12.0, 7.5 and 5.1% for mice fed no modifier of desaturase activity, clofibrate and increased PUFA, respectively. Conversion based on TVA equivalents available for desaturation was 52.6, 55.5 and 37.0%, respectively. Thus, clofibrate did not increase desaturation of stored TVA, but higher PUFA intake decreased desaturation by 30%.

Supplementing with clofibrate increased 16:1, whereas TVA, 18:2 and CLA were decreased in total carcass fatty acids (P < 0.05; Table 5Citation ). Feeding 10% corn oil decreased 16:0, 16:1 and cis 18:1, and increased 18:2 and 18:3 (P < 0.05). PUFA tended to be decreased by clofibrate compared with feeding no supplement. Inclusion of TVA increased proportions of TVA and CLA in all treatments.


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Table 5. Distribution of fatty acids in the total carcass of mice fed diets with or without trans-vaccenic acid and with or without clofibrate or increased polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) (Experiment 1)1

 
Comparative metabolism of isomers of 18-carbon fatty acids.

Including 1% CLA in the diet decreased food and fatty acid intakes (P < 0.05, Table 6Citation ). Weight gain of the group fed CLA was lowest (P < 0.05, Table 7Citation ), and reflects a lower accumulation of body fat (P < 0.05). The amount of protein in the body was not influenced by any dietary manipulations. Unsaturated isomers accumulated in tissues according to the isomer fed; only TVA was desaturated to CLA. The amount of elaidic acid found in tissues of mice fed elaidic acid approximated the TVA equivalents in mice fed TVA, suggesting that these two trans monoenes were incorporated similarly. The amount of CLA found in mice fed TVA was higher than that in mice fed CLA (P < 0.05) but did not differ as a proportion of the total carcass fatty acids. Retention of dietary CLA was 9.5% of the amount consumed during the 14-d feeding period. Net conversion of dietary TVA was 10%; that of TVA equivalents stored was 51%.


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Table 6. Mean intake of food and fatty acids by mice fed isomers of 18-carbon fatty acids (1% of diet) for 2 wk (Experiment 2)1

 

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Table 7. Mean body weight and composition of mice fed stearic, trans-vaccenic, elaidic or conjugated linoleic acids (1% of diet) for 2 wk (Experiment 2)1

 
Characterization of fatty acids in mice fed isomers of 18-carbon fatty acids.

Fatty acid profiles were not analyzed statistically because only one analysis was made on pooled carcasses from each dietary group. Fatty acid profiles of triacylglycerol and phospholipids (Table 8Citation ) are typical of these lipid classes (Patton et al. 1982Citation ). Isomeric 18-carbon fatty acids in the triacylglycerol fractions reflected dietary treatments. Elaidic, but not trans-vaccenic, acid was found in the phospholipid fraction. Arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids were lower in phospholipids of mice fed elaidic acid and CLA. Of particular interest, CLA was found in phospholipids only in the group fed CLA. The small amount of CLA found in triacylglycerol of mice fed stearic and elaidic acids was carried over from preexperimental diets (amounts not different from amounts found in preliminary slaughter groups); a small amount could have been obtained also by coprophagy (Chin et al. 1994bCitation ).


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Table 8. Distribution of fatty acids in triacylglycerol and total phospholipids from pooled carcasses of three mice fed diets containing 1% stearic, trans-vaccenic, elaidic or conjugated linoleic acids for 2-wk (Experiment 2)

 

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 RESULTS
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Fecal fat was lower when TVA was fed compared with 1% dietary stearic acid (Experiment 1). This is consistent with the lower melting point of TVA compared with stearic acid (44 vs. 69.6°C; Small 1986Citation ), an important factor determining digestibility of fatty acids. It is apparent that stearic acid, fed as the free acid, was not well absorbed even when it was fed with corn oil. Increasing the amount of PUFA in the diet decreased the amount of TVA in feces, as expected from synergistic effects of unsaturated fatty acids on saturated fat digestibility (Wiseman 1984Citation ). Feeding clofibrate also decreased TVA and total fat in feces; presumably this was caused by increased degradation of cholesterol in liver (Reddy and Mannaerts,1994Citation ), which would increase bile acid output and fatty acid digestibility.

Fatty acid profiles of the carcass were influenced by all treatments. Modest decreases in saturated fatty acids when the corn oil content of the diet was increased to 10% reflect the low amount of saturates in the oil. The proportion of 16:1 increased 20–40%, and cis 18:1 tended to increase when clofibrate was fed, which would be expected if {Delta}-9 desaturase activity were increased. Interestingly, proportions of TVA, 18:2 and other PUFA, including CLA, tended to be decreased by clofibrate; this was shown previously to occur in liver microsomal phosphatidylcholine (Nakagawa et al. 1986Citation ). Thus, the failure to increase CLA content of the carcass by feeding clofibrate was caused by preferential degradation of CLA, as well as increased degradation of fat in general, resulting in lower fat content of the body.

The mean conversion of TVA to CLA in the three experiments (3, 5 and 10 mice per treatment group) was 11.4 ± 1.25% of the dietary TVA or 50.8 ± 1.91% of the stored TVA. Thus, bioconversion of TVA clearly has the potential to increase CLA in tissues, as suggested by Parodi (1994)Citation . Emken et al. (1986)Citation reported that they found no evidence of desaturation of TVA in young men given a single (7–8 g) dietary bolus of deuterium-labeled TVA. Possibly the pool was not labeled sufficiently to detect desaturation. The report of Salminen et al. (1998)Citation suggests that TVA is desaturated to CLA; however, the study provided no quantitative estimate of desaturation.

CLA produced from TVA desaturation was found only in triacylglycerols, whereas when CLA was fed, it was found in both triacylglycerol and phospholipid classes. This suggests that desaturation of TVA occurred in the adipose tissue, consistent with the complete repression of the hepatic stearoyl-CoA desaturase gene when unsaturated fatty acids are fed (Ntambi 1995Citation ).

A question arises whether endogenously synthesized CLA in adipose tissue is biologically available. Park et al. (1999a)Citation showed that CLA in adipose tissue of mice is mobilized, and thus available to other tissues. In our short study, mobilization was apparently insufficient to detect accumulation of endogenously synthesized CLA in tissue phospholipids (Table 8)Citation . Further, to the extent that it occurs (Konrad et al. 1998Citation ), de novo fatty acid synthesis takes place predominately in liver of humans (Patel et al. 1975Citation , Shrago and Spennetta, 1976Citation ); presumably {Delta}-9 desaturase activity does so also. Although the genes for stearoyl-CoA desaturase have been identified in many human tissues (Tocher et al. 1998Citation ), quantitative expression of activity in tissues is less certain. Liver CLA also is mobilized and is available for redistribution (Park et al. 1999aCitation ).

We investigated whether desaturation of TVA could be modified by providing agents in the diet known to influence desaturase activity (Diczfalusy et al. 1995Citation , Ntambi 1995Citation ). Adding 0.5% clofibrate to the diet did not increase desaturation. Although total CLA in the tissues was decreased, it was not different from nonsupplemented controls when expressed as a proportion of total fatty acids. Total body fat content of mice fed clofibrate was decreased compared with controls (2.2 vs. 2.9 g, P < 0.0005). The significant effects caused by feeding clofibrate document that it was biologically active; it is likely that clofibrate induced the fatty acid degrading (oxidation) as well as desaturating activity of the peroxisomes (Katoh et al. 1987Citation ), resulting in lower fatty acid accumulation in the body. Further, clofibrate preferentially decreases PUFA in diacyl glycerophosphatidylcholine (Nakagawa et al. 1986Citation ). It was possible to decrease desaturation of TVA to CLA by 30% by increasing the polyunsaturated fat content of the diet (10 vs. 4% corn oil).

Implications for human diets.

Daily intake of CLA by the general population is uncertain. Salminen et al. (1998)Citation reported a mean intake of 310 mg/d by 80 persons consuming a diet high in dairy fat. Ritzenhaler et al. (1998)Citation reported that females consumed 52 mg/d, and males 136 mg/d from 3-d food records; food-frequency questionnaires suggested that intake was 60% higher. Intake of TVA has been estimated at 1.26 (Emken 1995Citation ) and 1.3 -1.8 g/d (Wolff 1995Citation ). Thus, if retention of CLA and desaturation of TVA in humans were similar to our quantitative estimates in mice, TVA intake would increase current estimates of CLA available for tissues in the general population by 6–10 fold; further, the specific rumenic acid isomer would be increased.

Numerous effects of dietary CLA on food intake, body weight gain and body composition have been reported. Increasing CLA in the milk of the dam increased pup growth, which extended beyond weaning for those continuing to consume CLA (Chin et al. 1994aCitation ). Improved feed efficiency was reported as well. Conversely, West et al. (1998)Citation reported that CLA fed to mice (1–1.2% of diet) from 5 to 11 wk of age reduced food intake, growth rate and body fat content, and increased the metabolic rate. Park et al. (1997)Citation observed lower body fat and increased lean body mass with no change in feed intake when 0.5% dietary CLA was fed to 5-wk-old mice for 32 d. Dietary CLA reduced backfat thickness in pigs with no (Dunshea et al. 1998Citation ) or variable (Cook et al. 1998Citation ) effects on feed intake. In this study, CLA decreased food intake and body fat content without changing protein content. In all of these studies, a mixture of CLA isomers, containing mainly cis/trans 9, 11 and 10, 12 isomers, was fed. Trans monoenes have been documented to decrease fatty acid synthesis (Loor and Herbein 1998Citation , Teter et al. 1990Citation ); more recently, the trans10 monoene has been implicated specifically (Griinari et al. 1998Citation ). McGuire et al. (1998)Citation found that trans9 and trans10 monoenes were correlated with reduced milk fatty acid synthesis in lactating women, whereas the trans11 monoene was not correlated. A mixture of CLA isomers also decreased de novo fatty acid synthesis (Loor and Herbein 1998Citation ); recently, direct evidence has shown that the trans10, cis12 isomer of CLA is responsible for decreased fat synthesis, decreased food intake and changes in body composition (Baumgard et al. 1999Citation ; Park et al. 1999bCitation )

Food intake and body composition were not changed by desaturation of TVA to the cis9, trans11 isomer of CLA, suggesting that this isomer does not influence fat synthesis, consistent with results of Baumgard et al. (1999)Citation and Park et al. (1999b)Citation . Further research with pure isomers will be required to determine whether the natural rumenic acid isomer (cis9, trans11) is responsible for other biological effects of CLA reported extensively in the literature (Belury 1995Citation , Ha et al. 1990Citation , Ip et al. 1991Citation ).

The efficient conversion of TVA to rumenic acid by desaturation has implications for the role of TVA in health and for proposed regulations for labeling foods for trans fatty acid content. Our data clearly show that trans11 18:1 is metabolized differently from the trans9 monoene and suggest that this fact should be taken into account when decisions are made regarding the trans fatty acid content of foods.


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1 Salaries and research support provided by state and federal funds appropriated to the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University.

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3 Abbreviations used: CLA, conjugated linoleic acid; DM, dry matter; GC, gas chromatography; PUFA polyunsaturated fatty acids; TVA, trans-vaccenic acid.

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Manuscript received April 15, 1999. Initial review completed May 28, 1999. Revision accepted October 7, 1999.


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