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Threonine-deficient diets induced changes in hepatic bioenergetics.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  19228885     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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.
Authors:
Catherine M Ross-Inta; Yi-Fan Zhang; Andrew Almendares; Cecilia Giulivi
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural     Date:  2009-02-19
Journal Detail:
Title:  American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology     Volume:  296     ISSN:  0193-1857     ISO Abbreviation:  Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol.     Publication Date:  2009 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-04-27     Completed Date:  2009-06-02     Revised Date:  2010-09-23    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  100901227     Medline TA:  Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  G1130-9     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adenosine Triphosphate / metabolism
Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena*
Animals
Body Weight
Dietary Proteins / administration & dosage,  metabolism*
Disease Models, Animal
Eating
Energy Metabolism*
Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide / metabolism
Liver / metabolism*
Male
Mitochondria, Heart / metabolism
Mitochondria, Liver / metabolism*
Myocardium / metabolism
NAD / metabolism
Oxidative Phosphorylation
Protein Deficiency / metabolism*,  physiopathology
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Threonine / administration & dosage,  deficiency*
Time Factors
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
ES-005707/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS; ES-012691/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Dietary Proteins; 146-14-5/Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide; 53-84-9/NAD; 56-65-5/Adenosine Triphosphate; 72-19-5/Threonine
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