1.14.11.8 down pigs fed a high-lysine diet have lower concentrations of free and total carnitine in plasma, liver, kidney and skeletal muscle than control pigs, and have an increased concentration of trimethyllysine, TML, a reduced mRNA abundance of TML dioxygenase and reduced concentrations of gamma-butyrobetaine in muscle, indicating that the conversion of trimethyllysine into gamma-butyrobetaine in muscle is impaired 697027