Amino Acid Profiles during Prolonged Dietary Protein Restriction

Author(s):  
Johan B. Rosman ◽  
Maria Brandl ◽  
Klaus Langer
Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2195
Author(s):  
Kim A. Sjøberg ◽  
Dieter Schmoll ◽  
Matthew D. W. Piper ◽  
Bente Kiens ◽  
Adam J. Rose

Pre-clinical studies show that dietary protein restriction (DPR) improves healthspan and retards many age-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes. While mouse studies have shown that restriction of certain essential amino acids is required for this response, less is known about which amino acids are affected by DPR in humans. Here, using a within-subjects diet design, we examined the effects of dietary protein restriction in the fasted state, as well as acutely after meal feeding, on blood plasma amino acid levels. While very few amino acids were affected by DPR in the fasted state, several proteinogenic AAs such as isoleucine, leucine, lysine, phenylalanine, threonine, tyrosine, and valine were lower in the meal-fed state with DPR. In addition, the non-proteinogenic AAs such as 1- and 3-methyl-histidine were also lower with meal feeding during DPR. Lastly, using in silico predictions of the most limiting essential AAs compared with human exome AA usage, we demonstrate that leucine, methionine, and threonine are potentially the most limiting essential AAs with DPR. In summary, acute meal feeding allows more accurate determination of which AAs are affected by dietary interventions, with most essential AAs lowered by DPR.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 647-647
Author(s):  
Joanna Moro ◽  
Juliane Calvez ◽  
Catherine Chaumontet ◽  
Patrick Even ◽  
Julien Piedcoq ◽  
...  

Abstract Objectives Severely low-protein diets (LP) induce behavioral and metabolic changes including a decrease in body weight, an increase in relative food intake (FI) and alterations in hepatic metabolism. During such protein restriction, changes in hepatic anabolic and catabolic protein pathways could transitory participate to compensate for amino acid (AA) deficiency. In the present study, liver expression of gene involved in proteosynthesis and proteolysis pathways, were related to FI, blood AA levels and body composition in rats fed LP diet. Methods Growing rats were fed for three weeks different diets containing 3-5-8-12-15 or 20% energy of milk protein. Body weight and FI were measured daily. At the end of the experiment, tissues and biological fluids were removed for gene expression measurement and blood AA UPLC analysis. Statistical analysis was done by 1- or 2-factor ANOVA, when data were repeated. Results Despite an increase in relative food intake under P3 and P5% diets, P3, P5 and P8% diets resulted in significant growth retardation compared to other groups. Lean mass was significantly decreased in rats under P3, P5 and P8% compared to P12, P15 and P20% diets, while there was no difference in fat mass between all groups. P3, P5 and P8% diets induced a decrease in essential amino acid concentrations in portal vein, whereas there was no significant difference between groups in veina cava. Severely protein restricted P3% and P5% diets induced an increase in hepatic gene expression involved in proteolysis as calpain 2 and ubiquitin, and an activation of ATF4-CHOP-TRB3 pathway. Conclusions These results suggested that under severe protein restriction, hepatic protein catabolism became a source of plasma amino acid that could partially compensate for the AA not provided by the diet. These observations confirm that liver plays a major role in the adaptation of the body to dietary protein restriction and highlight that severe dietary protein restriction induced liver protein catabolism by inducing an activation of ATF4-CHOP-TRB3 pathway in order to provide amino acids to body tissues. Funding Sources ABIES, AlimH-INRAE.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (S 01) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Laeger ◽  
DC Albarado ◽  
L Trosclair ◽  
J Hedgepeth ◽  
CD Morrison

Diabetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 261-LB
Author(s):  
CRISTAL M. HILL ◽  
MADELEINE V. DEHNER ◽  
DAVID MCDOUGAL ◽  
HANS-RUDOLF BERTHOUD ◽  
HEIKE MUENZBERG ◽  
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Diabetes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 238-LB
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER L. AXELROD ◽  
WAGNER S. DANTAS ◽  
GANGARAO DAVULURI ◽  
WILLIAM T. KING ◽  
CRISTAL M. HILL ◽  
...  

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 2609
Author(s):  
Han Fang ◽  
Kirsten P. Stone ◽  
Sujoy Ghosh ◽  
Laura A. Forney ◽  
Thomas W. Gettys

Dietary protein restriction and dietary methionine restriction (MR) produce a comparable series of behavioral, physiological, biochemical, and transcriptional responses. Both dietary regimens produce a similar reduction in intake of sulfur amino acids (e.g., methionine and cystine), and both diets increase expression and release of hepatic FGF21. Given that FGF21 is an essential mediator of the metabolic phenotype produced by both diets, an important unresolved question is whether dietary protein restriction represents de facto methionine restriction. Using diets formulated from either casein or soy protein with matched reductions in sulfur amino acids, we compared the ability of the respective diets to recapitulate the metabolic phenotype produced by methionine restriction using elemental diets. Although the soy-based control diets supported faster growth compared to casein-based control diets, casein-based protein restriction and soy-based protein restriction produced comparable reductions in body weight and fat deposition, and similar increases in energy intake, energy expenditure, and water intake. In addition, the prototypical effects of dietary MR on hepatic and adipose tissue target genes were similarly regulated by casein- and soy-based protein restriction. The present findings support the feasibility of using restricted intake of diets from various protein sources to produce therapeutically effective implementation of dietary methionine restriction.


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