Threonine-deficient diets induced changes in hepatic bioenergetics
Threonine-deficient diets induced changes in hepatic bioenergetics
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DOI:
10.1152/ajpgi.90545.2008
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发表时间:
2009-05-01
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Giulivi, Cecilia
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作者:
Ross-Inta, Catherine M.;Zhang, Yi-Fan;Giulivi, Cecilia
Ross-Inta CM, Zhang Y-F, Almendares A, Giulivi C. Threonine-deficient diets induced changes in hepatic bioenergetics. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 296: G1130-G1139, 2009. First published February 19, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.90545.2008.-Diets deficient in an indispensable amino acid are known to suppress food intake in rats. Few studies were focused at understanding how amino acid-deficient diets may elicit biochemical changes at the mitochondrial level. The goal of this study was to evaluate mitochondrial function in rats fed diets with 0.00, 0.18, 0.36, and 0.88% threonine (Thr) (set at 0, 30, 60, and 140% of Thr requirement for growth). Here, it is described for the first time that Thr-deficient diets induce a specific uncoupling of mitochondria in liver, especially with NADH-linked substrates, not observed in heart (except for Thr-devoid diet). The advantage of this situation would be to provide ATP to support growth and maintenance when high-quality protein food (or wealth of high- quality food in general) is available, whereas Thr-deficient diets (or deficient-quality protein food) promote the opposite, increasing mitochondrial uncoupling in liver. The uncoupling with NADH substrates would favor the use of nutrients as energy sources with higher FADH-to-NADH ratios, such as fat, minimizing the first irreversible NADH-dependent catabolism of many amino acids, including Thr, thus enhancing the use of the limiting amino acid for protein synthesis when a low quality protein source is available.