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Pradhan R, Dieterich W, Natarajan A, Schwappacher R, Reljic D, Herrmann HJ, Neurath MF, Zopf Y. Influence of Amino Acids and Exercise on Muscle Protein Turnover, Particularly in Cancer Cachexia. Cancers (Basel) 2024; 16:1921. [PMID: 38791998 PMCID: PMC11119313 DOI: 10.3390/cancers16101921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2024] [Revised: 05/15/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
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Cancer cachexia is a multifaceted syndrome that impacts individuals with advanced cancer. It causes numerous pathological changes in cancer patients, such as inflammation and metabolic dysfunction, which further diminish their quality of life. Unfortunately, cancer cachexia also increases the risk of mortality in affected individuals, making it an important area of focus for cancer research and treatment. Several potential nutritional therapies are being tested in preclinical and clinical models for their efficacy in improving muscle metabolism in cancer patients. Despite promising results, no special nutritional therapies have yet been validated in clinical practice. Multiple studies provide evidence of the benefits of increasing muscle protein synthesis through an increased intake of amino acids or protein. There is also increasing evidence that exercise can reduce muscle atrophy by modulating protein synthesis. Therefore, the combination of protein intake and exercise may be more effective in improving cancer cachexia. This review provides an overview of the preclinical and clinical approaches for the use of amino acids with and without exercise therapy to improve muscle metabolism in cachexia.
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- Rashmita Pradhan
- Department of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (R.P.); (W.D.); (A.N.); (R.S.); (D.R.); (H.J.H.); (M.F.N.)
- Hector-Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (R.P.); (W.D.); (A.N.); (R.S.); (D.R.); (H.J.H.); (M.F.N.)
- Hector-Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (R.P.); (W.D.); (A.N.); (R.S.); (D.R.); (H.J.H.); (M.F.N.)
- Hector-Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (R.P.); (W.D.); (A.N.); (R.S.); (D.R.); (H.J.H.); (M.F.N.)
- Hector-Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (R.P.); (W.D.); (A.N.); (R.S.); (D.R.); (H.J.H.); (M.F.N.)
- Hector-Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (R.P.); (W.D.); (A.N.); (R.S.); (D.R.); (H.J.H.); (M.F.N.)
- Hector-Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (R.P.); (W.D.); (A.N.); (R.S.); (D.R.); (H.J.H.); (M.F.N.)
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- Department of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (R.P.); (W.D.); (A.N.); (R.S.); (D.R.); (H.J.H.); (M.F.N.)
- Hector-Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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Ducarmon QR, Grundler F, Le Maho Y, Wilhelmi de Toledo F, Zeller G, Habold C, Mesnage R. Remodelling of the intestinal ecosystem during caloric restriction and fasting. Trends Microbiol 2023:S0966-842X(23)00057-4. [PMID: 37031065 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2023.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 04/10/2023]
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Benefits of fasting and caloric restriction on host metabolic health are well established, but less is known about the effects on the gut microbiome and how this impacts renewal of the intestinal mucosa. What has been repeatedly shown during fasting, however, is that bacteria utilising host-derived substrates proliferate at the expense of those relying on dietary substrates. Considering the increased recognition of the gut microbiome's role in maintaining host (metabolic) health, disentangling host-microbe interactions and establishing their physiological relevance in the context of fasting and caloric restriction is crucial. Such insights could aid in moving away from associations of gut bacterial signatures with metabolic diseases consistently reported in observational studies to potentially establishing causality. Therefore, this review aims to summarise what is currently known or still controversial about the interplay between fasting and caloric restriction, the gut microbiome and intestinal tissue physiology.
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- Quinten R Ducarmon
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Buchinger Wilhelmi Clinic, Wilhelmi-Beck-Straße 27, 88662 Überlingen, Germany
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR, 7178, Strasbourg, France; Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco, Monaco
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR, 7178, Strasbourg, France.
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- Buchinger Wilhelmi Clinic, Wilhelmi-Beck-Straße 27, 88662 Überlingen, Germany; King's College London, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, London, UK.
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Alemany M. Estrogens and the regulation of glucose metabolism. World J Diabetes 2021; 12:1622-1654. [PMID: 34754368 PMCID: PMC8554369 DOI: 10.4239/wjd.v12.i10.1622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The main estrogens: estradiol, estrone, and their acyl-esters have been studied essentially related to their classical estrogenic and pharmacologic functions. However, their main effect in the body is probably the sustained control of core energy metabolism. Estrogen nuclear and membrane receptors show an extraordinary flexibility in the modulation of metabolic responses, and largely explain gender and age differences in energy metabolism: part of these mechanisms is already sufficiently known to justify both. With regard to energy, the estrogen molecular species act essentially through four key functions: (1) Facilitation of insulin secretion and control of glucose availability; (2) Modulation of energy partition, favoring the use of lipid as the main energy substrate when more available than carbohydrates; (3) Functional protection through antioxidant mechanisms; and (4) Central effects (largely through neural modulation) on whole body energy management. Analyzing the different actions of estrone, estradiol and their acyl esters, a tentative classification based on structure/effects has been postulated. Either separately or as a group, estrogens provide a comprehensive explanation that not all their quite diverse actions are related solely to specific molecules. As a group, they constitute a powerful synergic action complex. In consequence, estrogens may be considered wardens of energy homeostasis.
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- Marià Alemany
- Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Catalonia, Spain
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Masi T, Patel BM. Altered glucose metabolism and insulin resistance in cancer-induced cachexia: a sweet poison. Pharmacol Rep 2020; 73:17-30. [PMID: 33141425 DOI: 10.1007/s43440-020-00179-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Cancer cachexia is a wasting disorder characterised by specific skeletal muscle and adipose tissue loss. Cancer cachexia is also driven by inflammation, altered metabolic changes such as increased energy expenditure, elevated plasma glucose, insulin resistance and excess catabolism. In cachexia, host-tumor interaction causes release of the lactate and inflammatory cytokines. Lactate released by tumor cells takes part in hepatic glucose production with the help of gluconeogenic enzymes. Thus, Cori cycle between organs and cancerous cells contributes to increased glucose production and energy expenditure. A high amount of blood glucose leads to increased production of insulin. Overproduction of insulin causes inactivation of PI3K/Akt/m-TOR pathway and finally results in insulin resistance. Insulin is involved in maintaining the vitality of organs and regulate the metabolism of glucose, protein and lipids. Insulin insensitivity decreases the uptake of glucose in the organs and results in loss of skeletal muscles and adipose tissues. However, looking into the complexity of this metabolic syndrome, it is impossible to rely on a single variable to treat patients having cancer cachexia. Hence, it becomes greater a challenge to produce a clinically effective treatment for this metabolic syndrome. Thus, the present paper aims to provide an understanding of pathogenesis and mechanism underlining the altered glucose metabolism and insulin resistance and its contribution to the progression of skeletal muscle wasting and lipolysis, providing future direction of research to develop new pharmacological treatment in cancer cachexia.
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- Tamhida Masi
- Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 382 481, India
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 382 481, India.
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Devant M, Marti S. Strategies for Feeding Unweaned Dairy Beef Cattle to Improve Their Health. Animals (Basel) 2020; 10:E1908. [PMID: 33080998 PMCID: PMC7603113 DOI: 10.3390/ani10101908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Revised: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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In order to answer the question of whether nutritional interventions may help to reduce the incidence of respiratory disease in dairy beef calves at arrival, the present review is divided in three sections. In the first section, the nutrition of calves previous to the arrival from the origin farm to the final rearing farm is reviewed. In the second section, the possible consequences of this previous nutrition on gut health and immune status upon arrival to the rearing farm are described. The main consequences of previous nutrition and management that these unweaned calves suffer at arrival are the negative energy balance, the increased intestinal permeability, the oxidative stress, the anemia, and the recovery feed consumption. Finally, in the third section, some considerations to advance in future nutritional strategies are suggested, which are focused on the prevention of the negative consequences of previous nutrition and the recovery of the gut and immune status. Moreover, additional suggestions are formulated that will be also helpful to reduce the incidence of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) that are not directly linked to nutrition like having a control golden standard in the studies or designing risk categories in order to classify calves as suitable or not to be transported.
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- Maria Devant
- Ruminant Production, IRTA, Torre Marimon, 08140 Caldes de Montbui, Spain;
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Kobayashi A, Suzuki Y, Sugai S. Specificity of transaminase activities in the prediction of drug-induced hepatotoxicity. J Toxicol Sci 2020; 45:515-537. [PMID: 32879252 DOI: 10.2131/jts.45.515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The activities of the transaminases (aminotransferases) alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase in the blood (serum or plasma) are widely used as sensitive markers of possible tissue damage and, in particular for liver toxicity. On the other hand, an increase in transaminase activities is not always accompanied by findings suggestive of hepatotoxicity. Transaminases are some of the key enzymes in the gluconeogenesis and glycolysis pathways and exist in many organs and tissues which have high activities of the gluconeogenesis and glycolysis. The activities of transaminases are altered not only in the liver but also in other organs by modification of gluconeogenesis by nutritional or hormonal factors and this phenomenon leads to alteration of transaminase activity in the blood. Drugs, which are considered to directly or secondarily modify gluconeogenesis through lowering blood glucose levels or activating lipid metabolism, such as α-glucosidase inhibitors and fibrates, slightly increase transaminase activities in the blood but there is little evidence that the phenomenon is related to drug-induced liver injury (DILI). This type of elevations can be called pharmacology-related elevation. The pharmacology-related elevation of transaminase activities sometimes makes it difficult to assess precisely the potential hepatotoxicity of new investigational drugs. Considering the characteristic of transaminases, concomitant use of new biomarkers more specific to hepatic injury is needed in the assessment of DILI both in non-clinical and clinical studies. In this review, we will discuss the specificity of transaminases to DILI and future perspectives for transaminases in the estimation of risk of DILI.
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- Akio Kobayashi
- Toxicology Research Lab., Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, JAPAN TOBACCO INC
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- Toxicology Research Lab., Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, JAPAN TOBACCO INC
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- Toxicology Research Lab., Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, JAPAN TOBACCO INC
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Species-Specific Glucose-6-Phosphatase Activity in the Small Intestine-Studies in Three Different Mammalian Models. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20205039. [PMID: 31614497 PMCID: PMC6829527 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20205039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Revised: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Besides the liver, which has always been considered the major source of endogenous glucose production in all post-absorptive situations, kidneys and intestines can also produce glucose in blood, particularly during fasting and under protein feeding. However, observations gained in different experimental animals have given ambiguous results concerning the presence of the glucose-6-phosphatase system in the small intestine. The aim of this study was to better define the species-related differences of this putative gluconeogenic organ in glucose homeostasis. The components of the glucose-6-phosphatase system (i.e., glucose-6-phosphate transporter and glucose-6-phosphatase itself) were analyzed in homogenates or microsomal fractions prepared from the small intestine mucosae and liver of rats, guinea pigs, and humans. Protein and mRNA levels, as well as glucose-6-phosphatase activities, were detected. The results showed that the glucose-6-phosphatase system is poorly represented in the small intestine of rats; on the other hand, significant expressions of glucose-6-phosphate transporter and of the glucose-6-phosphatase were found in the small intestine of guinea pigs and homo sapiens. The activity of the recently described fructose-6-phosphate transporter–intraluminal hexose isomerase pathway was also present in intestinal microsomes from these two species. The results demonstrate that the gluconeogenic role of the small intestine is highly species-specific and presumably dependent on feeding behavior (e.g., fructose consumption) and the actual state of metabolism.
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Stahel P, Xiao C, Davis X, Tso P, Lewis GF. Glucose and GLP-2 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-2) Mobilize Intestinal Triglyceride by Distinct Mechanisms. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2019; 39:1565-1573. [PMID: 31294621 DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.119.313011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Dietary triglycerides are partially retained in the intestine within intracellular or extracellular compartments, which can be rapidly mobilized in response to several stimuli, including glucose and GLP-2 (glucagon-like peptide-2). To elucidate the mechanism of intestinal lipid mobilization, this study examined the patterns and time course of lymph flow and triglycerides after glucose and GLP-2 treatment in rats. Approach and Results: Lymph flow, triglyceride concentration, and triglyceride output were assessed in mesenteric lymph duct-cannulated rats in response to an intraduodenal (i.d.) lipid bolus followed 5 hours later by either (1) i.d. saline+intraperitoneal (i.p.) saline (placebo), (2) i.d. glucose plus i.p. saline, (3) i.d. saline+i.p. GLP-2, or (4) i.d. glucose+i.p. GLP-2. GLP-2 and glucose administered alone or in combination stimulated total triglyceride output to a similar extent, but the timing and pattern of stimulation differed markedly. Whereas GLP-2 rapidly increased lymph flow with no effect on lymph triglyceride concentration or triglyceride:apoB48 (apolipoprotein B48) ratio (a surrogate marker of chylomicron size) compared with placebo, glucose transiently decreased lymph flow followed by delayed stimulation of lymph flow and increased lymph triglyceride concentration and triglyceride:apoB48 ratio. CONCLUSIONS Glucose and GLP-2 robustly enhanced intestinal triglyceride output in rats but with different effects on lymph flow, lymph triglyceride concentration, and chylomicron size. GLP-2 stimulated triglyceride output primarily by enhancing lymph flow with no effect on chylomicron size, whereas glucose mobilized intestinal triglycerides, stimulating secretion of larger chylomicrons. This suggests that these 2 stimuli mobilize intestinal lipid by different mechanisms.
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- Priska Stahel
- From the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine and Physiology, Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto, ON, Canada (P.S., C.X., G.F.L.)
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- From the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine and Physiology, Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto, ON, Canada (P.S., C.X., G.F.L.)
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati, OH (X.D., P.T.)
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati, OH (X.D., P.T.)
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- From the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine and Physiology, Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto, ON, Canada (P.S., C.X., G.F.L.)
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Bertocchi M, Sirri F, Palumbo O, Luise D, Maiorano G, Bosi P, Trevisi P. Exploring Differential Transcriptome between Jejunal and Cecal Tissue of Broiler Chickens. Animals (Basel) 2019; 9:ani9050221. [PMID: 31067716 DOI: 10.3390/ani9050221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Revised: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 05/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The study proposed an exploratory functional analysis on differential gene expression of the jejunum and of cecum in chickens. For this study, 150 Ross 308 male chickens were randomly allotted in six pens (25 birds/pen) and fed the same commercial diet. From 19 birds of 42 days of age, jejunum and cecum mucosae were collected for RNA extraction for transcriptome microarray analysis. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) submitted to DAVID (Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery) and Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) software evidenced enriched gene clusters for biological functions differentiated in the tissues. DAVID analysis in the jejunum showed enriched annotations for cell membrane integral components, PPAR (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor) signaling pathway, and peroxisome and lipid metabolism, and showed DEGs for gluconeogenesis, not previously reported in chicken jejunum. The cecum showed enriched annotations for disulfide bond category, cysteine and methionine metabolism, glycoprotein category, cell cycle, and extracellular matrix (ECM). GSEA analysis in the jejunum showed peroxisome and PPAR signaling pathway-related gene sets, as found with DAVID, and gene sets for immune regulation, tryptophan and histidine metabolism, and renin-angiotensin system, like in mammals. The cecum showed cell cycle and regulation processes, as well as ECM receptor interaction and focal adhesion-related gene sets. Typical intestinal functions specific for the gut site and interesting functional genes groups emerged, revealing tissue-related key aspects which future studies might take advantage of.
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- Micol Bertocchi
- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy.
- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso CB, Italy.
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy.
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo FG, Italy.
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy.
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso CB, Italy.
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy.
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy.
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Rohm M, Zeigerer A, Machado J, Herzig S. Energy metabolism in cachexia. EMBO Rep 2019; 20:embr.201847258. [PMID: 30890538 DOI: 10.15252/embr.201847258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Cachexia is a wasting disorder that accompanies many chronic diseases including cancer and results from an imbalance of energy requirements and energy uptake. In cancer cachexia, tumor-secreted factors and/or tumor-host interactions cause this imbalance, leading to loss of adipose tissue and skeletal and cardiac muscle, which weakens the body. In this review, we discuss how energy enters the body and is utilized by the different organs, including the gut, liver, adipose tissue, and muscle, and how these organs contribute to the energy wasting observed in cachexia. We also discuss futile cycles both between the organs and within the cells, which are often used to fine-tune energy supply under physiologic conditions. Ultimately, understanding the complex interplay of pathologic energy-wasting circuits in cachexia can bring us closer to identifying effective treatment strategies for this devastating wasting disease.
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- Maria Rohm
- Institute for Diabetes and Cancer (IDC), Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.,Joint Heidelberg-IDC Translational Diabetes Program, Inner Medicine I, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Cancer (IDC), Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.,Joint Heidelberg-IDC Translational Diabetes Program, Inner Medicine I, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Cancer (IDC), Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.,Joint Heidelberg-IDC Translational Diabetes Program, Inner Medicine I, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Cancer (IDC), Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany .,Joint Heidelberg-IDC Translational Diabetes Program, Inner Medicine I, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.,Chair Molecular Metabolic Control, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Potts A, Uchida A, Deja S, Berglund ED, Kucejova B, Duarte JA, Fu X, Browning JD, Magnuson MA, Burgess SC. Cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase as a cataplerotic pathway in the small intestine. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2018; 315:G249-G258. [PMID: 29631378 PMCID: PMC6139646 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00039.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Abstract
Cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) is a gluconeogenic enzyme that is highly expressed in the liver and kidney but is also expressed at lower levels in a variety of other tissues where it may play adjunct roles in fatty acid esterification, amino acid metabolism, and/or TCA cycle function. PEPCK is expressed in the enterocytes of the small intestine, but it is unclear whether it supports a gluconeogenic rate sufficient to affect glucose homeostasis. To examine potential roles of intestinal PEPCK, we generated an intestinal PEPCK knockout mouse. Deletion of intestinal PEPCK ablated ex vivo gluconeogenesis but did not significantly affect glycemia in chow, high-fat diet, or streptozotocin-treated mice. In contrast, postprandial triglyceride secretion from the intestine was attenuated in vivo, consistent with a role in fatty acid esterification. Intestinal amino acid profiles and 13C tracer appearance into these pools were significantly altered, indicating abnormal amino acid trafficking through the enterocyte. The data suggest that the predominant role of PEPCK in the small intestine of mice is not gluconeogenesis but rather to support nutrient processing, particularly with regard to lipids and amino acids. NEW & NOTEWORTHY The small intestine expresses gluconeogenic enzymes for unknown reasons. In addition to glucose synthesis, the nascent steps of this pathway can be used to support amino acid and lipid metabolisms. When phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, an essential gluconeogenic enzyme, is knocked out of the small intestine of mice, glycemia is unaffected, but mice inefficiently absorb dietary lipid, have abnormal amino acid profiles, and inefficiently catabolize glutamine. Therefore, the initial steps of intestinal gluconeogenesis are used for processing dietary triglycerides and metabolizing amino acids but are not essential for maintaining blood glucose levels.
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- Austin Potts
- 1Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- 1Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- 2Center for Human Nutrition, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- 1Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- 2Center for Human Nutrition, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- 1Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- 2Center for Human Nutrition, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- 3Department of Clinical Nutrition, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- 5Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- 1Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas,4Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Whiteman JP, Harlow HJ, Durner GM, Regehr EV, Amstrup SC, Ben-David M. Phenotypic plasticity and climate change: can polar bears respond to longer Arctic summers with an adaptive fast? Oecologia 2017; 186:369-381. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-4023-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Martins HA, Bazotte RB, Vicentini GE, Lima MM, Guarnier FA, Hermes-Uliana C, Frez FCV, Bossolani GDP, Fracaro L, Fávaro LDS, Manzano MI, Zanoni JN. l-Glutamine supplementation promotes an improved energetic balance in Walker-256 tumor-bearing rats. Tumour Biol 2017; 39:1010428317695960. [PMID: 28345452 DOI: 10.1177/1010428317695960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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We evaluated the effects of supplementation with oral l-glutamine in Walker-256 tumor-bearing rats. A total of 32 male Wistar rats aged 54 days were randomly divided into four groups: rats without Walker-256 tumor, that is, control rats (C group); control rats supplemented with l-glutamine (CG group); Walker-256 tumor rats without l-glutamine supplementation (WT group); and WT rats supplemented with l-glutamine (WTG group). l-Glutamine was incorporated into standard food at a proportion of 2 g/100 g (2%). After 10 days of the experimental period, the jejunum and duodenum were removed and processed. Protein expression levels of key enzymes of gluconeogenesis, that is, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and glucose-6-phosphatase, were analyzed by western blot and immunohistochemical techniques. In addition, plasma corticosterone, glucose, insulin, and urea levels were evaluated. The WTG group showed significantly increased plasma glucose and insulin levels ( p < 0.05); however, plasma corticosterone and urea remained unchanged. Moreover, the WTG group showed increased immunoreactive staining for jejunal phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and increased expression of duodenal glucose-6-phosphatase. Furthermore, the WTG group presented with less intense cancer cachexia and slower tumor growth. These results could be attributed, at least partly, to increased intestinal gluconeogenesis and insulinemia, and better glycemia maintenance during fasting in Walker-256 tumor rats on a diet supplemented with l-glutamine.
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- Heber Amilcar Martins
- 1 Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- 1 Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- 1 Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- 1 Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- 1 Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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Di- and tripeptide transport in vertebrates: the contribution of teleost fish models. J Comp Physiol B 2016; 187:395-462. [PMID: 27803975 DOI: 10.1007/s00360-016-1044-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2016] [Revised: 10/12/2016] [Accepted: 10/20/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Solute Carrier 15 (SLC15) family, alias H+-coupled oligopeptide cotransporter family, is a group of membrane transporters known for their role in the cellular uptake of di- and tripeptides (di/tripeptides) and peptide-like molecules. Of its members, SLC15A1 (PEPT1) chiefly mediates intestinal absorption of luminal di/tripeptides from dietary protein digestion, while SLC15A2 (PEPT2) mainly allows renal tubular reabsorption of di/tripeptides from ultrafiltration, SLC15A3 (PHT2) and SLC15A4 (PHT1) possibly interact with di/tripeptides and histidine in certain immune cells, and SLC15A5 has unknown function. Our understanding of this family in vertebrates has steadily increased, also due to the surge of genomic-to-functional information from 'non-conventional' animal models, livestock, poultry, and aquaculture fish species. Here, we review the literature on the SLC15 transporters in teleost fish with emphasis on SLC15A1 (PEPT1), one of the solute carriers better studied amongst teleost fish because of its relevance in animal nutrition. We report on the operativity of the transporter, the molecular diversity, and multiplicity of structural-functional solutions of the teleost fish orthologs with respect to higher vertebrates, its relevance at the intersection of the alimentary and osmoregulative functions of the gut, its response under various physiological states and dietary solicitations, and its possible involvement in examples of total body plasticity, such as growth and compensatory growth. By a comparative approach, we also review the few studies in teleost fish on SLC15A2 (PEPT2), SLC15A4 (PHT1), and SLC15A3 (PHT2). By representing the contribution of teleost fish to the knowledge of the physiology of di/tripeptide transport and transporters, we aim to fill the gap between higher and lower vertebrates.
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Tamaoki K, Okada R, Ishihara A, Shiojiri N, Mochizuki K, Goda T, Yamauchi K. Morphological, biochemical, transcriptional and epigenetic responses to fasting and refeeding in intestine of Xenopus laevis. Cell Biosci 2016; 6:2. [PMID: 26798452 PMCID: PMC4721045 DOI: 10.1186/s13578-016-0067-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2015] [Accepted: 01/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background Amphibians are able to survive for several months without food. However, it is unclear what molecular mechanisms underlie their survival. To characterize the intestinal responses to fasting and refeeding, we investigated morphological, biochemical, transcriptional and epigenetic changes in the intestine from adult male Xenopus laevis. Results Frogs were fed for 22 days, fasted for 22 days, or fasted for 21 days and refed for 1 day. Fasting reduced, and refeeding recovered partially or fully, morphological parameters (wet weight of the intestine, circumference of the epithelial layer and number of troughs in a villus-trough unit), activities of digestive enzymes and plasma biochemical parameters (glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol and free fatty acids). Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed overall suppression of the transcript levels by fasting, with various recovery rates on refeeding. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assays on the selected genes whose transcript levels declined with fasting and recovered quickly with refeeding, showed several euchromatin marks in histone (acetylation and methylation) and RNA polymerase II modifications (phosphorylation) with fasting, and returned to the feeding levels by refeeding. The mRNA levels of these genes responded to fasting and refeeding to greater extents than did the pre-mRNA levels, suggesting the involvement of post-transcriptional regulation. Conclusions Our results demonstrate that the X. laevis intestine may undergo overall metabolic suppression at least at the transcriptional level to save energy during fasting and quickly recovered to moderate nutritional deficiency by refeeding, and suggest that these dietary responses of the intestine are epigenetically and post-transcriptionally regulated. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13578-016-0067-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Keiji Tamaoki
- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan ; Green Biology Research Division, Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan ; Green Biology Research Division, Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan
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- Department of Local Produce and Food Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, 400-8510 Japan
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- Laboratory of Nutritional Physiology, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, The University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 422-8526 Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan ; Green Biology Research Division, Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529 Japan
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Grefner NM, Gromova LV, Gruzdkov AA, Komissarchik YY. Interaction of glucose transporters SGLT1 and GLUT2 with cytoskeleton in enterocytes and Caco2 cells during hexose absorption. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990519x15010034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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It has been proposed that the non-saturable component of intestinal glucose absorption, apparent following prolonged exposure to high intraluminal glucose concentrations, is mediated via the low affinity glucose and fructose transporter, GLUT2, upregulated within the small intestinal apical border. The evidence that the non-saturable transport component is mediated via an apical membrane sugar transporter is that it is inhibited by phloretin, after exposure to phloridzin. Since the other apical membrane sugar transporter, GLUT5, is insensitive to inhibition by either cytochalasin B, or phloretin, GLUT2 was deduced to be the low affinity sugar transport route. As in its uninhibited state, polarized intestinal glucose absorption depends both on coupled entry of glucose and sodium across the brush border membrane and on the enterocyte cytosolic glucose concentration exceeding that in both luminal and submucosal interstitial fluids, upregulation of GLUT2 within the intestinal brush border will usually stimulate downhill glucose reflux to the intestinal lumen from the enterocytes; thereby reducing, rather than enhancing net glucose absorption across the luminal surface. These states are simulated with a computer model generating solutions to the differential equations for glucose, Na and water flows between luminal, cell, interstitial and capillary compartments. The model demonstrates that uphill glucose transport via SGLT1 into enterocytes, when short-circuited by any passive glucose carrier in the apical membrane, such as GLUT2, will reduce transcellular glucose absorption and thereby lead to increased paracellular flow. The model also illustrates that apical GLUT2 may usefully act as an osmoregulator to prevent excessive enterocyte volume change with altered luminal glucose concentrations.
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- Richard J Naftalin
- Department of Physiology and BHF Centre of Research Excellence, King's College London, School of Medicine, London, SE1 9HN, UK
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Altirriba J, Poher AL, Caillon A, Arsenijevic D, Veyrat-Durebex C, Lyautey J, Dulloo A, Rohner-Jeanrenaud F. Divergent effects of oxytocin treatment of obese diabetic mice on adiposity and diabetes. Endocrinology 2014; 155:4189-201. [PMID: 25157455 DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Oxytocin has been suggested as a novel therapeutic against obesity, because it induces weight loss and improves glucose tolerance in diet-induced obese rodents. A recent clinical pilot study confirmed the oxytocin-induced weight-reducing effect in obese nondiabetic subjects. Nevertheless, the mechanisms involved and the impact on the main comorbidity associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes, are unknown. Lean and ob/ob mice (model of obesity, hyperinsulinemia, and diabetes) were treated for 2 weeks with different doses of oxytocin, analogues with longer half-life (carbetocin) or higher oxytocin receptor specificity ([Thr4,Gly7]-oxytocin). Food and water intake, body weight, and glycemia were measured daily. Glucose, insulin, and pyruvate tolerance, body composition, several hormones, metabolites, gene expression, as well as enzyme activities were determined. Although no effect of oxytocin on the main parameters was observed in lean mice, the treatment dose-dependently reduced food intake and body weight gain in ob/ob animals. Carbetocin behaved similarly to oxytocin, whereas [Thr4,Gly7]-oxytocin (TGOT) and a low oxytocin dose decreased body weight gain without affecting food intake. The body weight gain-reducing effect was limited to the fat mass only, with decreased lipid uptake, lipogenesis, and inflammation, combined with increased futile cycling in abdominal adipose tissue. Surprisingly, oxytocin treatment of ob/ob mice was accompanied by a worsening of basal glycemia and glucose tolerance, likely due to increased corticosterone levels and stimulation of hepatic gluconeogenesis. These results impose careful selection of the conditions in which oxytocin treatment should be beneficial for obesity and its comorbidities, and their relevance for human pathology needs to be determined.
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- Jordi Altirriba
- Laboratory of Metabolism (J.A., A.-L.P., A.C., C.V.-D., J.L., F.R.-J.), Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland; and Department of Medicine/Physiology (D.A., A.D.), University of Fribourg, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland
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Multiple roles of glucose-6-phosphatases in pathophysiology. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2013; 1830:2608-18. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2012.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2012] [Revised: 12/11/2012] [Accepted: 12/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Kellett GL. Comment on: Gorboulev et al. Na+-D-glucose cotransporter SGLT1 Is pivotal for intestinal glucose absorption and glucose-dependent incretin secretion. Diabetes 2012;61:187-196. Diabetes 2012; 61:e4; author reply e5. [PMID: 22618779 PMCID: PMC3357282 DOI: 10.2337/db11-1793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Ait-Omar A, Monteiro-Sepulveda M, Poitou C, Le Gall M, Cotillard A, Gilet J, Garbin K, Houllier A, Château D, Lacombe A, Veyrie N, Hugol D, Tordjman J, Magnan C, Serradas P, Clément K, Leturque A, Brot-Laroche E. GLUT2 accumulation in enterocyte apical and intracellular membranes: a study in morbidly obese human subjects and ob/ob and high fat-fed mice. Diabetes 2011; 60:2598-607. [PMID: 21852673 PMCID: PMC3178286 DOI: 10.2337/db10-1740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE In healthy rodents, intestinal sugar absorption in response to sugar-rich meals and insulin is regulated by GLUT2 in enterocyte plasma membranes. Loss of insulin action maintains apical GLUT2 location. In human enterocytes, apical GLUT2 location has not been reported but may be revealed under conditions of insulin resistance. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Subcellular location of GLUT2 in jejunal enterocytes was analyzed by confocal and electron microscopy imaging and Western blot in 62 well-phenotyped morbidly obese subjects and 7 lean human subjects. GLUT2 locations were assayed in ob/ob and ob/+ mice receiving oral metformin or in high-fat low-carbohydrate diet-fed C57Bl/6 mice. Glucose absorption and secretion were respectively estimated by oral glucose tolerance test and secretion of [U-(14)C]-3-O-methyl glucose into lumen. RESULTS In human enterocytes, GLUT2 was consistently located in basolateral membranes. Apical GLUT2 location was absent in lean subjects but was observed in 76% of obese subjects and correlated with insulin resistance and glycemia. In addition, intracellular accumulation of GLUT2 with early endosome antigen 1 (EEA1) was associated with reduced MGAT4a activity (glycosylation) in 39% of obese subjects on a low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet. Mice on a low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet for 12 months also exhibited endosomal GLUT2 accumulation and reduced glucose absorption. In ob/ob mice, metformin promoted apical GLUT2 and improved glucose homeostasis. Apical GLUT2 in fasting hyperglycemic ob/ob mice tripled glucose release into intestinal lumen. CONCLUSIONS In morbidly obese insulin-resistant subjects, GLUT2 was accumulated in apical and/or endosomal membranes of enterocytes. Functionally, apical GLUT2 favored and endosomal GLUT2 reduced glucose transepithelial exchanges. Thus, altered GLUT2 locations in enterocytes are a sign of intestinal adaptations to human metabolic pathology.
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- Amal Ait-Omar
- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 7 Nutriomique, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
- Nutrition and Endocrinology Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; Centre Recherche en Nutrition Humaine (CRNH) Ile de France, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 7 Nutriomique, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (EAC4413), Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 7 Nutriomique, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
- Surgery Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, Paris, France
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- Pathology Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 7 Nutriomique, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (EAC4413), Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 7 Nutriomique, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
- Nutrition and Endocrinology Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; Centre Recherche en Nutrition Humaine (CRNH) Ile de France, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U872, Team 9, Paris, France; Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 872, Paris, France
- Corresponding author: Edith Brot-Laroche,
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Lohrenz AK, Duske K, Schönhusen U, Losand B, Seyfert H, Metges C, Hammon H. Glucose transporters and enzymes related to glucose synthesis in small intestinal mucosa of mid-lactation dairy cows fed 2 levels of starch. J Dairy Sci 2011; 94:4546-55. [DOI: 10.3168/jds.2011-4333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2011] [Accepted: 05/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Hakvoort TBM, Moerland PD, Frijters R, Sokolović A, Labruyère WT, Vermeulen JLM, Ver Loren van Themaat E, Breit TM, Wittink FRA, van Kampen AHC, Verhoeven AJ, Lamers WH, Sokolović M. Interorgan coordination of the murine adaptive response to fasting. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:16332-43. [PMID: 21393243 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.216986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Starvation elicits a complex adaptive response in an organism. No information on transcriptional regulation of metabolic adaptations is available. We, therefore, studied the gene expression profiles of brain, small intestine, kidney, liver, and skeletal muscle in mice that were subjected to 0-72 h of fasting. Functional-category enrichment, text mining, and network analyses were employed to scrutinize the overall adaptation, aiming to identify responsive pathways, processes, and networks, and their regulation. The observed transcriptomics response did not follow the accepted "carbohydrate-lipid-protein" succession of expenditure of energy substrates. Instead, these processes were activated simultaneously in different organs during the entire period. The most prominent changes occurred in lipid and steroid metabolism, especially in the liver and kidney. They were accompanied by suppression of the immune response and cell turnover, particularly in the small intestine, and by increased proteolysis in the muscle. The brain was extremely well protected from the sequels of starvation. 60% of the identified overconnected transcription factors were organ-specific, 6% were common for 4 organs, with nuclear receptors as protagonists, accounting for almost 40% of all transcriptional regulators during fasting. The common transcription factors were PPARα, HNF4α, GCRα, AR (androgen receptor), SREBP1 and -2, FOXOs, EGR1, c-JUN, c-MYC, SP1, YY1, and ETS1. Our data strongly suggest that the control of metabolism in four metabolically active organs is exerted by transcription factors that are activated by nutrient signals and serves, at least partly, to prevent irreversible brain damage.
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- Theodorus B M Hakvoort
- Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research (formerly AMC Liver Center), Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Grefner NM, Gromova LV, Gruzdkov AA, Komissarchik YY. Comparative analysis of SGLT1 and GLUT2 transporters distribution in rat small-intestine enterocytes and Caco-2 cells during hexose absorption. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990519x10040085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Bahrami J, Yusta B, Drucker DJ. ErbB activity links the glucagon-like peptide-2 receptor to refeeding-induced adaptation in the murine small bowel. Gastroenterology 2010; 138:2447-56. [PMID: 20226187 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2010.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2009] [Revised: 02/09/2010] [Accepted: 03/04/2010] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS The small bowel mucosa is sensitive to nutrients and undergoes rapid adaptation to nutrient deprivation and refeeding through changes in apoptosis and cell proliferation, respectively. Although glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) exerts trophic effects on the gut and levels increase with refeeding, mechanisms linking GLP-2 to mucosal adaptation to refeeding remain unclear. METHODS Fasting and refeeding were studied in wild-type (WT) and Glp2r(-/-) mice and in WT mice treated with the pan ErbB inhibitor CI-1033. Experimental end points included intestinal weights, histomorphometry, gene and protein expression, and crypt cell proliferation. RESULTS Fasting was associated with significant reductions in small bowel mass, decreased crypt plus villus height, and reduced crypt cell proliferation. Refeeding increased plasma levels of GLP-2, reversed small bowel atrophy, increased villus height and cell number, and stimulated jejunal crypt cell proliferation. In contrast, refeeding failed to increase small bowel weight, crypt cell proliferation, or villus cell number in Glp2r(-/-) mice. Levels of mRNA transcripts for egf, kgf, and igfr were lower in fasted Glp2r(-/-) mice. Epidermal growth factor but not insulin-like growth factor-1 restored the intestinal adaptive response to refeeding in Glp2r(-/-) mice. Furthermore, CI-1033 prevented adaptive crypt cell proliferation, Akt activation, and induction of ErbB ligand gene expression after refeeding. Up-regulation of ErbB ligand expression and intestinal Akt phosphorylation were significantly diminished in refed Glp2r(-/-) mice. CONCLUSIONS These findings identify Glp2r and ErbB pathways as essential components of the signaling network regulating the adaptive mucosal response to refeeding in the mouse intestine.
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- Jasmine Bahrami
- Department of Medicine, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Differential effects of rapid and slow body mass reduction on body composition during an equivalent weight loss in rats. Obes Res Clin Pract 2010; 4:e83-e162. [DOI: 10.1016/j.orcp.2009.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2009] [Revised: 07/16/2009] [Accepted: 09/28/2009] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Kobayashi A, Oshida SI, Yamazaki Y, Maekawa T, Kuno H, Sugai S, Sakakibara H, Shimoi K. Relationships between plasma and tissue transaminase activities in rats maintained under different feeding conditions. J Toxicol Sci 2010; 35:639-52. [DOI: 10.2131/jts.35.639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Akio Kobayashi
- Toxicology Research Lab., Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, JAPAN TOBACCO INC
- Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka
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- Toxicology Research Lab., Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, JAPAN TOBACCO INC
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- Toxicology Research Lab., Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, JAPAN TOBACCO INC
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- Toxicology Research Lab., Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, JAPAN TOBACCO INC
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- Toxicology Research Lab., Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, JAPAN TOBACCO INC
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- Toxicology Research Lab., Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, JAPAN TOBACCO INC
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- Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka
- Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka
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- Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka
- Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka
- Global COE Program, University of Shizuoka
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Castillo J, Crespo D, Capilla E, Díaz M, Chauvigné F, Cerdà J, Planas JV. Evolutionary structural and functional conservation of an ortholog of the GLUT2 glucose transporter gene (SLC2A2) in zebrafish. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2009; 297:R1570-81. [PMID: 19776250 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00430.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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In mammals, GLUT2 plays an essential role in glucose homeostasis. From an evolutionary perspective, relatively little is known about the biology of GLUT2, or other GLUTs, in nonmammalian vertebrates. Here, we have conducted studies to functionally characterize GLUT2 in zebrafish. First, we cloned the zebrafish ortholog of GLUT2 (zfGLUT2) encoding a protein of 504 amino acids with high-sequence identity to other known vertebrate GLUT2 proteins. The zfGLUT2 gene consists of 11 exons and 10 introns, spanning 20 kb and mapping to a region of chromosome 2 that exhibits conserved synteny with human chromosome 3. When expressed in Xenopus oocytes, zfGLUT2 transported 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) with similar affinity than mammalian GLUT2 (K(m) of 11 mM). Transport of 2-DG was competed mostly by D-fructose and D-mannose and was inhibited by cytochalasin B. During early development, zfGLUT2 expression was detected already at 10 h postfertilization and remained elevated in 5-day larvae, when it was clearly localized to the liver and intestinal bulb. In the adult, zfGLUT2 expression was highest in testis, brain, skin, kidney, and intestine, followed by liver and muscle. In the intestine, zfGLUT2 transcripts were detected in absorptive enterocytes, and its mRNA levels were altered by fasting and refeeding, suggesting that its expression in the intestine may be regulated by the nutritional status. These results indicate that the structure and function of GLUT2 has been remarkably well conserved during vertebrate evolution and open the way for the use of zebrafish as a model species in which to study the biology and pathophysiology of GLUT2.
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- Juan Castillo
- Departament de Fisiologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona and Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Tomé D, Schwarz J, Darcel N, Fromentin G. Protein, amino acids, vagus nerve signaling, and the brain. Am J Clin Nutr 2009; 90:838S-843S. [PMID: 19640948 DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.27462w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Dietary protein and amino acids, including glutamate, generate signals involved in the control of gastric and intestinal motility, pancreatic secretion, and food intake. They include postprandial meal-induced visceral and metabolic signals and associated nutrients (eg, amino acids and glucose), gut neuropeptides, and hormonal signals. Protein reduces gastric motility and stimulates pancreatic secretions. Protein and amino acids are also more potent than carbohydrate and fat in inducing short-term satiety in animals and humans. High-protein diets lead to activation of the noradrenergic-adrenergic neuronal pathway in the brainstem nucleus of the solitary tract and in melanocortin neurons of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus. Moreover, some evidence indicates that circulating concentrations of certain amino acids could influence food intake. Leucine modulates the activity of energy and nutrient sensor pathways controlled by AMP-activated protein kinase and mammalian target of rapamycin in the hypothalamus. At the brain level, 2 afferent pathways are involved in protein and amino acid monitoring: the indirect neural (mainly vagus-mediated) and the direct humoral pathways. The neural pathways transfer preabsorptive and visceral information through the vagus nerve that innervates part of the orosensory zone (stomach, duodenum, and liver). Localized in the brainstem, the nucleus of the solitary tract is the main projection site of the vagus nerve and integrates sensory information of oropharyngeal, intestinal, and visceral origins. Ingestion of protein also activates satiety pathways in the arcuate nucleus, which is characterized by an up-regulation of the melanocortin pathway (alpha-melanocyte-stimulating, hormone-containing neurons) and a down-regulation of the neuropeptide Y pathway.
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- Daniel Tomé
- AgroParisTech and INRA, UMR Nutrition Physiology and Ingestive Behavior, Paris, France.
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Westerterp-Plantenga M, Nieuwenhuizen A, Tomé D, Soenen S, Westerterp K. Dietary Protein, Weight Loss, and Weight Maintenance. Annu Rev Nutr 2009; 29:21-41. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-nutr-080508-141056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 374] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- M.S. Westerterp-Plantenga
- Department of Human Biology, Nutrim, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
- TIFN, 6700 AN Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Biology, Nutrim, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
- TIFN, 6700 AN Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- AgroParisTech, Department of Life Sciences and Health, UMR914 Nutrition Physiology and Ingestive Behavior, F75005, Paris, France
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- Department of Human Biology, Nutrim, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
- TIFN, 6700 AN Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Biology, Nutrim, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
- TIFN, 6700 AN Wageningen, The Netherlands
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW The present review presents recent findings on peripheral and central pathways involved in protein and amino acid-induced satiety. RECENT FINDINGS A high-protein load leads to a higher decrease of energy intake at the next meal than carbohydrate and fat. A protein-enriched diet induces satiety, improves body composition and results in weight loss. At the peripheral level, proteins seem to induce the release of anorexigenic gut hormones cholecystokinin, glucagon-like peptide-1 and peptide YY, whereas the involvement of ghrelin remains uncertain. Energy expenditure and glucose are probably involved as metabolic signals in protein-induced satiety. Moreover, there is some evidence that the circulating level of leucine could impact food intake. Leucine has been shown to modulate the activity of the energy and nutrient sensor pathways controlled by AMPK and mTOR in the hypothalamus. Moreover, high-protein diets lead to activation of the noradrenergic/adrenergic neuronal pathway in the nucleus of the solitary tract and in melanocortin neurons in the arcuate nucleus. SUMMARY Complex and redundant pathways are involved in protein and amino acid-induced satiety. Significant advances have recently allowed a better understanding of the involved cellular and molecular mechanisms. The involvement of some specific area of the brain including the hypothalamus and the nucleus of the solitary tract has to be further analyzed.
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Mace OJ, Lister N, Morgan E, Shepherd E, Affleck J, Helliwell P, Bronk JR, Kellett GL, Meredith D, Boyd R, Pieri M, Bailey PD, Pettcrew R, Foley D. An energy supply network of nutrient absorption coordinated by calcium and T1R taste receptors in rat small intestine. J Physiol 2008; 587:195-210. [PMID: 19001049 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.159616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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T1R taste receptors are present throughout the gastrointestinal tract. Glucose absorption comprises active absorption via SGLT1 and facilitated absorption via GLUT2 in the apical membrane. Trafficking of apical GLUT2 is rapidly up-regulated by glucose and artificial sweeteners, which act through T1R2 + T1R3/alpha-gustducin to activate PLC beta2 and PKC betaII. We therefore investigated whether non-sugar nutrients are regulated by taste receptors using perfused rat jejunum in vivo. Under different conditions, we observed a Ca(2+)-dependent reciprocal relationship between the H(+)/oligopeptide transporter PepT1 and apical GLUT2, reflecting the fact that trafficking of PepT1 and GLUT2 to the apical membrane is inhibited and activated by PKC betaII, respectively. Addition of L-glutamate or sucralose to a perfusate containing low glucose (20 mM) each activated PKC betaII and decreased apical PepT1 levels and absorption of the hydrolysis-resistant dipeptide L-Phe(PsiS)-L-Ala (1 mM), while increasing apical GLUT2 and glucose absorption within minutes. Switching perfusion from mannitol to glucose (75 mM) exerted similar effects. c-glutamate induced rapid GPCR internalization of T1R1, T1R3 and transducin, whereas sucralose internalized T1R2, T1R3 and alpha-gustducin. We conclude that L-glutamate acts via amino acid and glucose via sweet taste receptors to coordinate regulation of PepT1 and apical GLUT2 reciprocally through a common enterocytic pool of PKC betaII. These data suggest the existence of a wider Ca(2+) and taste receptor-coordinated transport network incorporating other nutrients and/or other stimuli capable of activating PKC betaII and additional transporters, such as the aspartate/glutamate transporter, EAAC1, whose level was doubled by L-glutamate. The network may control energy supply.
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- Oliver J Mace
- Department of Biology (Area 3), The University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5YW, UK
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Sokolović M, Sokolović A, Wehkamp D, Ver Loren van Themaat E, de Waart DR, Gilhuijs-Pederson LA, Nikolsky Y, van Kampen AHC, Hakvoort TBM, Lamers WH. The transcriptomic signature of fasting murine liver. BMC Genomics 2008; 9:528. [PMID: 18990241 PMCID: PMC2588605 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2008] [Accepted: 11/06/2008] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Background The contribution of individual organs to the whole-body adaptive response to fasting has not been established. Hence, gene-expression profiling, pathway, network and gene-set enrichment analysis and immunohistochemistry were carried out on mouse liver after 0, 12, 24 and 72 hours of fasting. Results Liver wet weight had declined ~44, ~5, ~11 and ~10% per day after 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours of fasting, respectively. Liver structure and metabolic zonation were preserved. Supervised hierarchical clustering showed separation between the fed, 12–24 h-fasted and 72 h-fasted conditions. Expression profiling and pathway analysis revealed that genes involved in amino-acid, lipid, carbohydrate and energy metabolism responded most significantly to fasting, that the response peaked at 24 hours, and had largely abated by 72 hours. The strong induction of the urea cycle, in combination with increased expression of enzymes of the tricarboxylic-acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation, indicated a strong stimulation of amino-acid oxidation peaking at 24 hours. At this time point, fatty-acid oxidation and ketone-body formation were also induced. The induction of genes involved in the unfolded-protein response underscored the cell stress due to enhanced energy metabolism. The continuous high expression of enzymes of the urea cycle, malate-aspartate shuttle, and the gluconeogenic enzyme Pepck and the re-appearance of glycogen in the pericentral hepatocytes indicate that amino-acid oxidation yields to glucose and glycogen synthesis during prolonged fasting. Conclusion The changes in liver gene expression during fasting indicate that, in the mouse, energy production predominates during early fasting and that glucose production and glycogen synthesis become predominant during prolonged fasting.
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- Milka Sokolović
- AMC Liver Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Kellett GL, Brot-Laroche E, Mace OJ, Leturque A. Sugar absorption in the intestine: the role of GLUT2. Annu Rev Nutr 2008; 28:35-54. [PMID: 18393659 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.28.061807.155518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 325] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Intestinal glucose absorption comprises two components. One is classical active absorption mediated by the Na+/glucose cotransporter. The other is a diffusive component, formerly attributed to paracellular flow. Recent evidence, however, indicates that the diffusive component is mediated by the transient insertion of glucose transporter type 2 (GLUT2) into the apical membrane. This apical GLUT2 pathway of intestinal sugar absorption is present in species from insect to human, providing a major route at high sugar concentrations. The pathway is regulated by rapid trafficking of GLUT2 to the apical membrane induced by glucose during assimilation of a meal. Apical GLUT2 is therefore a target for multiple short-term and long-term nutrient-sensing mechanisms. These include regulation by a newly recognized pathway of calcium absorption through the nonclassical neuroendocrine l-type channel Cav1.3 operating during digestion, activation of intestinal sweet taste receptors by natural sugars and artificial sweeteners, paracrine and endocrine hormones, especially insulin and GLP-2, and stress. Permanent apical GLUT2, resulting in increased sugar absorption, is a characteristic of experimental diabetes and of insulin-resistant states induced by fructose and fat. The nutritional consequences of apical and basolateral GLUT2 regulation are discussed in the context of Western diet, processed foods containing artificial sweeteners, obesity, and diabetes.
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- George L Kellett
- Department of Biology (Area 3), The University of York, York YO10 5YW, United Kingdom.
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Tobin V, Le Gall M, Fioramonti X, Stolarczyk E, Blazquez AG, Klein C, Prigent M, Serradas P, Cuif MH, Magnan C, Leturque A, Brot-Laroche E. Insulin internalizes GLUT2 in the enterocytes of healthy but not insulin-resistant mice. Diabetes 2008; 57:555-62. [PMID: 18057092 DOI: 10.2337/db07-0928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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OBJECTIVES A physiological adaptation to a sugar-rich meal is achieved by increased sugar uptake to match dietary load, resulting from a rapid transient translocation of the fructose/glucose GLUT2 transporter to the brush border membrane (BBM) of enterocytes. The aim of this study was to define the contributors and physiological mechanisms controlling intestinal sugar absorption, focusing on the action of insulin and the contribution of GLUT2-mediated transport. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The studies were performed in the human enterocytic colon carcinoma TC7 subclone (Caco-2/TC7) cells and in vivo during hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp experiments in conscious mice. Chronic high-fructose or high-fat diets were used to induce glucose intolerance and insulin resistance in mice. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS In Caco-2/TC7 cells, insulin action diminished the transepithelial transfer of sugar and reduced BBM and basolateral membrane (BLM) GLUT2 levels, demonstrating that insulin can target sugar absorption by controlling the membrane localization of GLUT2 in enterocytes. Similarly, in hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp experiments in sensitive mice, insulin abolished GLUT2 (i.e., the cytochalasin B-sensitive component of fructose absorption), decreased BBM GLUT2, and concomitantly increased intracellular GLUT2. Acute insulin treatment before sugar intake prevented the insertion of GLUT2 into the BBM. Insulin resistance in mice provoked a loss of GLUT2 trafficking, and GLUT2 levels remained permanently high in the BBM and low in the BLM. We propose that, in addition to its peripheral effects, insulin inhibits intestinal sugar absorption to prevent excessive blood glucose excursion after a sugar meal. This protective mechanism is lost in the insulin-resistant state induced by high-fat or high-fructose feeding.
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- Vanessa Tobin
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Unité Mixte de Recherche S 872, Paris, France
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Sokolović M, Wehkamp D, Sokolović A, Vermeulen J, Gilhuijs-Pederson LA, van Haaften RIM, Nikolsky Y, Evelo CTA, van Kampen AHC, Hakvoort TBM, Lamers WH. Fasting induces a biphasic adaptive metabolic response in murine small intestine. BMC Genomics 2007; 8:361. [PMID: 17925015 PMCID: PMC2148066 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2007] [Accepted: 10/09/2007] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The gut is a major energy consumer, but a comprehensive overview of the adaptive response to fasting is lacking. Gene-expression profiling, pathway analysis, and immunohistochemistry were therefore carried out on mouse small intestine after 0, 12, 24, and 72 hours of fasting. RESULTS Intestinal weight declined to 50% of control, but this loss of tissue mass was distributed proportionally among the gut's structural components, so that the microarrays' tissue base remained unaffected. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering of the microarrays revealed that the successive time points separated into distinct branches. Pathway analysis depicted a pronounced, but transient early response that peaked at 12 hours, and a late response that became progressively more pronounced with continued fasting. Early changes in gene expression were compatible with a cellular deficiency in glutamine, and metabolic adaptations directed at glutamine conservation, inhibition of pyruvate oxidation, stimulation of glutamate catabolism via aspartate and phosphoenolpyruvate to lactate, and enhanced fatty-acid oxidation and ketone-body synthesis. In addition, the expression of key genes involved in cell cycling and apoptosis was suppressed. At 24 hours of fasting, many of the early adaptive changes abated. Major changes upon continued fasting implied the production of glucose rather than lactate from carbohydrate backbones, a downregulation of fatty-acid oxidation and a very strong downregulation of the electron-transport chain. Cell cycling and apoptosis remained suppressed. CONCLUSION The changes in gene expression indicate that the small intestine rapidly looses mass during fasting to generate lactate or glucose and ketone bodies. Meanwhile, intestinal architecture is maintained by downregulation of cell turnover.
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- Milka Sokolović
- AMC Liver Centre, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Bioinformatics Laboratory, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- BiGCaT Bioinformatics, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- AMC Liver Centre, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Morphological changes of the rat intestinal lining in relation to body stores depletion during fasting and after refeeding. PFLUGERS ARCHIV : EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 2007. [PMID: 17638014 DOI: 10.1007/s004 24-007-0289-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Intestinal villus atrophy through prolonged fasting was studied according to two different metabolic phases reached by fasting animals and characterized by (a) the mobilization of fat stores as body fuel and (b) an increase in protein catabolism for energy expenditure. The mechanisms involved in the rapid jejunal restoration after refeeding were also determined. Mucosal structural atrophy during fasting proved to worsen over the two phases due mainly to the retraction of the lacteals in the lamina propria, as observed through the immunolocalization of aquaporin 1 in the endothelial cells of the lymphatic vessels and the detachment of the basal membrane of the epithelial lining at the tip of the villi. Microvilli surface area is preserved through fasting, and apical PepT1 expression increases during both metabolic fasting phases. Refeeding after both fasting phases induces an increase in FATP4 accompanied by a rapid lipid uptake by the enterocytes at the tip of the villi and a rapid extension of the lamina propria due to inflated lymphatic vessels. These mechanisms were more prevalent in animals refed after the phase III fast and could be considered as the major processes allowing complete morphological restoration of the jejunum within only 3 days after refeeding.
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Habold C, Reichardt F, Foltzer-Jourdainne C, Lignot JH. Morphological changes of the rat intestinal lining in relation to body stores depletion during fasting and after refeeding. Pflugers Arch 2007; 455:323-32. [PMID: 17638014 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-007-0289-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2006] [Accepted: 05/09/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Intestinal villus atrophy through prolonged fasting was studied according to two different metabolic phases reached by fasting animals and characterized by (a) the mobilization of fat stores as body fuel and (b) an increase in protein catabolism for energy expenditure. The mechanisms involved in the rapid jejunal restoration after refeeding were also determined. Mucosal structural atrophy during fasting proved to worsen over the two phases due mainly to the retraction of the lacteals in the lamina propria, as observed through the immunolocalization of aquaporin 1 in the endothelial cells of the lymphatic vessels and the detachment of the basal membrane of the epithelial lining at the tip of the villi. Microvilli surface area is preserved through fasting, and apical PepT1 expression increases during both metabolic fasting phases. Refeeding after both fasting phases induces an increase in FATP4 accompanied by a rapid lipid uptake by the enterocytes at the tip of the villi and a rapid extension of the lamina propria due to inflated lymphatic vessels. These mechanisms were more prevalent in animals refed after the phase III fast and could be considered as the major processes allowing complete morphological restoration of the jejunum within only 3 days after refeeding.
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- Caroline Habold
- Département d'Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie, CNRS, IPHC, 23 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg cedex 2, France
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Fergani A, Oudart H, Gonzalez De Aguilar JL, Fricker B, René F, Hocquette JF, Meininger V, Dupuis L, Loeffler JP. Increased peripheral lipid clearance in an animal model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Lipid Res 2007; 48:1571-80. [PMID: 17438338 PMCID: PMC1974855 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m700017-jlr200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common adult motor neuron disease, causing motor neuron degeneration, muscle atrophy, paralysis, and death. Despite this degenerative process, a stable hypermetabolic state has been observed in a large subset of patients. Mice expressing a mutant form of Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (mSOD1 mice) constitute an animal model of ALS that, like patients, exhibits unexpectedly increased energy expenditure. Counterbalancing for this increase with a high-fat diet extends lifespan and prevents motor neuron loss. Here, we investigated whether lipid metabolism is defective in this animal model. Hepatic lipid metabolism was roughly normal, whereas gastrointestinal absorption of lipids as well as peripheral clearance of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins were markedly increased, leading to decreased postprandial lipidemia. This defect was corrected by the high-fat regimen that typically induces neuroprotection in these animals. Together, our findings show that energy metabolism in mSOD1 mice shifts toward an increase in the peripheral use of lipids. This metabolic shift probably accounts for the protective effect of dietary lipids in this model.
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- Anissa Fergani
- Laboratoire de signalisation moléculaire et neurodégénerescence
INSERM : U692 IFR37Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg IFaculte de Medecine
11, Rue Humann
67085 STRASBOURG CEDEX,FR
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- Centre d'Ecologie et Physiologie Energétiques
CNRS : UPR901023 rue Becquerel 67087 Strasbourg Cedex,FR
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- Laboratoire de signalisation moléculaire et neurodégénerescence
INSERM : U692 IFR37Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg IFaculte de Medecine
11, Rue Humann
67085 STRASBOURG CEDEX,FR
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- Laboratoire de signalisation moléculaire et neurodégénerescence
INSERM : U692 IFR37Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg IFaculte de Medecine
11, Rue Humann
67085 STRASBOURG CEDEX,FR
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- Laboratoire de signalisation moléculaire et neurodégénerescence
INSERM : U692 IFR37Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg IFaculte de Medecine
11, Rue Humann
67085 STRASBOURG CEDEX,FR
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- Centre Référent Maladie Rare Sclerose Lateral Amyotrophique
Hôpital de La Pitié-SalpêtrièreFR
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- Laboratoire de signalisation moléculaire et neurodégénerescence
INSERM : U692 IFR37Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg IFaculte de Medecine
11, Rue Humann
67085 STRASBOURG CEDEX,FR
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- Laboratoire de signalisation moléculaire et neurodégénerescence
INSERM : U692 IFR37Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg IFaculte de Medecine
11, Rue Humann
67085 STRASBOURG CEDEX,FR
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Mace OJ, Affleck J, Patel N, Kellett GL. Sweet taste receptors in rat small intestine stimulate glucose absorption through apical GLUT2. J Physiol 2007; 582:379-92. [PMID: 17495045 PMCID: PMC2075289 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.130906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 326] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Natural sugars and artificial sweeteners are sensed by receptors in taste buds. T2R bitter and T1R sweet taste receptors are coupled through G-proteins, alpha-gustducin and transducin, to activate phospholipase C beta2 and increase intracellular calcium concentration. Intestinal brush cells or solitary chemosensory cells (SCCs) have a structure similar to lingual taste cells and strongly express alpha-gustducin. It has therefore been suggested over the last decade that brush cells may participate in sugar sensing by a mechanism analogous to that in taste buds. We provide here functional evidence for an intestinal sensing system based on lingual taste receptors. Western blotting and immunocytochemistry revealed that all T1R members are expressed in rat jejunum at strategic locations including Paneth cells, SCCs or the apical membrane of enterocytes; T1Rs are colocalized with each other and with alpha-gustducin, transducin or phospholipase C beta2 to different extents. Intestinal glucose absorption consists of two components: one is classical active Na+-glucose cotransport, the other is the diffusive apical GLUT2 pathway. Artificial sweeteners increase glucose absorption in the order acesulfame potassium approximately sucralose > saccharin, in parallel with their ability to increase intracellular calcium concentration. Stimulation occurs within minutes by an increase in apical GLUT2, which correlates with reciprocal regulation of T1R2, T1R3 and alpha-gustducin versus T1R1, transducin and phospholipase C beta2. Our observation that artificial sweeteners are nutritionally active, because they can signal to a functional taste reception system to increase sugar absorption during a meal, has wide implications for nutrient sensing and nutrition in the treatment of obesity and diabetes.
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- Oliver J Mace
- Department of Biology (Area 3), University of York, York YO10 5YW, UK
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Westerterp-Plantenga MS, Smeets A, Nieuwenhuizen A. Sustained protein intake for bodyweight management. NUTR BULL 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-3010.2007.00602.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Morgan EL, Mace OJ, Affleck J, Kellett GL. Apical GLUT2 and Cav1.3: regulation of rat intestinal glucose and calcium absorption. J Physiol 2007; 580:593-604. [PMID: 17272350 PMCID: PMC2075547 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.124768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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We have proposed a model of intestinal glucose absorption in which transport by SGLT1 induces rapid insertion and activation of GLUT2 in the apical membrane by a PKC betaII-dependent mechanism. Since PKC betaII requires Ca(2+) and glucose is depolarizing, we have investigated whether glucose absorption is regulated by the entry of dietary Ca(2+) through Ca(v)1.3 in the apical membrane. When rat jejunum was perfused with 75 mM glucose, Ca(2+)-deplete conditions, or perfusion with the L-type antagonists nifedipine and verapamil strongly diminished the phloretin-sensitive apical GLUT2, but not the phloretin-insensitive SGLT1 component of glucose absorption. Western blotting showed that in each case there was a significant decrease in apical GLUT2 level, but no change in SGLT1 level. Inhibition of apical GLUT2 absorption coincided with inhibition of unidirectional (45)Ca(2+) entry by nifedipine and verapamil. At 10 mM luminal Ca(2+), (45)Ca(2+) absorption in the presence of 75 mM glucose was 2- to 3-fold that in the presence of 75 mM mannitol. The glucose-induced component was SGLT1-dependent and nifedipine-sensitive. RT-PCR revealed the presence of Ca(v)beta(3) in jejunal mucosa; Western blotting and immunocytochemistry localized Ca(v)beta(3) to the apical membrane, together with Ca(v)1.3. We conclude that in times of dietary sufficiency Ca(v)1.3 may mediate a significant pathway of glucose-stimulated Ca(2+) entry into the body and that luminal supply of Ca(2+) is necessary for GLUT2-mediated glucose absorption. The integration of glucose and Ca(2+) absorption represents a complex nutrient-sensing system, which allows both absorptive pathways to be regulated rapidly and precisely to match dietary intake.
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- Emma L Morgan
- Department of Biology, The University of York, York YO10 5YW, UK
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Mace OJ, Morgan EL, Affleck JA, Lister N, Kellett GL. Calcium absorption by Cav1.3 induces terminal web myosin II phosphorylation and apical GLUT2 insertion in rat intestine. J Physiol 2007; 580:605-16. [PMID: 17272349 PMCID: PMC2075544 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.124784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Glucose absorption in rat jejunum involves Ca(2+)- and PKC betaII-dependent insertion of GLUT2 into the apical membrane. Ca(2+)-induced rearrangement of the enterocyte cytoskeleton is thought to enhance paracellular flow. We have therefore investigated the relationships between myosin II regulatory light chain phosphorylation (RLC(20)), absorption of glucose, water and calcium, and mannitol clearance. ML-7, an inhibitor of myosin light chain kinase, diminished the phloretin-sensitive apical GLUT2 but not the phloretin-insensitive SGLT1 component of glucose absorption in rat jejunum perfused with 75 mM glucose. Western blotting and immunocytochemistry revealed marked decreases in RLC(20) phosphorylation in the terminal web and in the levels of apical GLUT2 and PKC betaII, but not SGLT1. Perfusion with phloridzin or 75 mM mannitol, removal of luminal Ca(2+), or inhibition of unidirectional (45)Ca(2+) absorption by nifedipine exerted similar effects. ML-7 had no effect on the absorption of 10 mM Ca(2+), nor clearance of [(14)C]-mannitol, which was less than 0.7% of the rate of glucose absorption. Water absorption did not correlate with (45)Ca(2+) absorption or mannitol clearance. We conclude that the Ca(2+) necessary for contraction of myosin II in the terminal web enters via an L-type channel, most likely Ca(v)1.3, and is dependent on SGLT1. Moreover, terminal web RLC(20) phosphorylation is necessary for apical GLUT2 insertion. The data confirm that glucose absorption by paracellular flow is negligible, and show further that paracellular flow makes no more than a minimal contribution to jejunal Ca(2+) absorption at luminal concentrations prevailing after a meal.
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- Oliver J Mace
- Department of Biology, The University of York, York YO10 5YW, UK
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Rajas F, Jourdan-Pineau H, Stefanutti A, Mrad EA, Iynedjian PB, Mithieux G. Immunocytochemical localization of glucose 6-phosphatase and cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in gluconeogenic tissues reveals unsuspected metabolic zonation. Histochem Cell Biol 2007; 127:555-65. [PMID: 17211624 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-006-0263-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Immunohistochemical analysis was used to define the precise cell-specific localization of Glucose-6-phosphatase (Glc6Pase) and cytosolic form of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK-C) in the digestive system (liver, small intestine and pancreas) and the kidney. Co-expression of Glc6Pase and PEPCK-C was shown to take place in hepatocytes, in proximal tubules of the cortex kidney and at the top of the villi of the small intestine suggesting that these tissues are all able to perform complete gluconeogenesis. On the other hand, intrahepatic bile ducts, collecting tubes of the nephron and the urinary epithelium in the calices of the kidney, as well as the crypts of the small intestine, express Glc6Pase without significant levels of PEPCK-C. In such cases, the function of Glc6Pase could be related to the transepithelial transport of glucose characteristic of these tissues, rather than to the neoformation of glucose. Lastly, PEPCK-C expression in the absence of Glc6Pase was noted in both the exocrine pancreas and the endocrine islets of Langerhans. Possible roles of PEPCK-C in exocrine pancreas might be the provision of gluconeogenic intermediates for further conversion into glucose in the liver, whereas PEPCK-C would be instrumental in pyruvate cycling, which has been suggested to play a regulatory role in insulin secretion by the beta-cells of the islets.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies/immunology
- Antibody Specificity/immunology
- Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic/chemistry
- Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic/enzymology
- Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic/metabolism
- Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic/chemistry
- Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic/enzymology
- Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic/metabolism
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cytosol/enzymology
- Cytosol/metabolism
- Digestive System/chemistry
- Digestive System/enzymology
- Digestive System/metabolism
- Endoplasmic Reticulum/chemistry
- Endoplasmic Reticulum/enzymology
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gluconeogenesis
- Glucose-6-Phosphatase/genetics
- Glucose-6-Phosphatase/immunology
- Glucose-6-Phosphatase/metabolism
- Hepatocytes/chemistry
- Hepatocytes/enzymology
- Hepatocytes/metabolism
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Intestine, Small/chemistry
- Intestine, Small/enzymology
- Intestine, Small/metabolism
- Islets of Langerhans/chemistry
- Islets of Langerhans/enzymology
- Islets of Langerhans/metabolism
- Kidney/chemistry
- Kidney/enzymology
- Kidney/metabolism
- Male
- Pancreas, Exocrine/chemistry
- Pancreas, Exocrine/enzymology
- Pancreas, Exocrine/metabolism
- Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (GTP)/genetics
- Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (GTP)/immunology
- Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (GTP)/metabolism
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Azzout-Marniche D, Gaudichon C, Blouet C, Bos C, Mathé V, Huneau JF, Tomé D. Liver glyconeogenesis: a pathway to cope with postprandial amino acid excess in high-protein fed rats? Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 292:R1400-7. [PMID: 17158265 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00566.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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This paper provides molecular evidence for a liver glyconeogenic pathway, that is, a concomitant activation of hepatic gluconeogenesis and glycogenesis, which could participate in the mechanisms that cope with amino acid excess in high-protein (HP) fed rats. This evidence is based on the concomitant upregulation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) gene expression, downregulation of glucose 6-phosphatase catalytic subunit (G6PC1) gene expression, an absence of glucose release from isolated hepatocytes and restored hepatic glycogen stores in the fed state in HP fed rats. These effects are mainly due to the ability of high physiological concentrations of portal blood amino acids to counteract glucagon-induced liver G6PC1 but not PEPCK gene expression. These results agree with the idea that the metabolic pathway involved in glycogen synthesis is dependent upon the pattern of nutrient availability. This nonoxidative glyconeogenic disposal pathway of gluconeogenic substrates copes with amino excess and participates in adjusting both amino acid and glucose homeostasis. In addition, the pattern of PEPCK and G6PC1 gene expression provides evidence that neither the kidney nor the small intestine participated in gluconeogenic glucose production under our experimental conditions. Moreover, the main glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) isoform expressed in the small intestine is the ubiquitous isoform of G6Pase (G6PC3) rather than the G6PC1 isoform expressed in gluconeogenic organs.
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- Dalila Azzout-Marniche
- INRA, AgroParisTech, UMR914 Nutrition Physiology and Ingestive Behavior, 16 rue Claude Bernard, Paris, F75005, France
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Leturque A, Brot-Laroche E, Le Gall M, Stolarczyk E, Tobin V. The role of GLUT2 in dietary sugar handling. J Physiol Biochem 2006; 61:529-37. [PMID: 16669350 DOI: 10.1007/bf03168378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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GLUT2 is a facilitative glucose transporter located in the plasma membrane of the liver, pancreatic, intestinal, kidney cells as well as in the portal and the hypothalamus areas. Due to its low affinity and high capacity, GLUT2 transports dietary sugars, glucose, fructose and galactose in a large range of physiological concentrations, displaying large bidirectional fluxes in and out the cells. This review focuses on the roles of GLUT2. The first identified function of GLUT2 is its capacity to fuel metabolism and to provide metabolites stimulating the transcription of glucose sensitive genes. Recently, two other functions of GLUT2 are uncovered. First, the insertion of GLUT2 into the apical membrane of enterocytes induces the acute regulation of intestinal sugar absorption after a meal. Second, the GLUT2 protein itself initiates a protein signalling pathway triggering a glucose signal from the plasma membrane to the transcription machinery.
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- A Leturque
- UMR 505 INSERM-UPMC, Institut Biomedical des Cordeliers, 15 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75 006 Paris, France.
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Habold C, Foltzer-Jourdainne C, Le Maho Y, Lignot JH. Intestinal apoptotic changes linked to metabolic status in fasted and refed rats. Pflugers Arch 2005; 451:749-59. [PMID: 16307225 PMCID: PMC2098874 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-005-1506-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2005] [Accepted: 08/11/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Intestinal apoptosis and expression of apoptosis inducers--the cytokines TNFalpha, TGFbeta1--and the intestinal transcription factor Cdx2, were studied according to two different metabolic and hormonal phases which characterize long-term fasting: the long period of protein sparing during which energy expenditure is derived from lipid oxidation (phase II), and the later phase characterized by a rise in body protein utilization and plasma corticosterone (phase III). Apoptosis was further studied in 2, 6, and 24 h refed rats. Morphological apoptotic events were observed by environmental and conventional scanning electron microscopy and a TUNEL test was used to characterize the final stages of apoptotic death. The gene and protein expressions of TNFalpha, TGFbeta1, and Cdx2 were measured. Apoptotic events and TNFalpha, TGFbeta1, and Cdx2 gene and protein expressions did not vary significantly during phase II as compared to the normally fed animals. However, a phase III fasting induced a delay in intestinal epithelial apoptosis, along with a 92, 58, and 25% decrease in TNFalpha, TGFbeta1, and Cdx2 mRNAs, respectively. The amounts of TNFalpha, TGFbeta1, and Cdx2 proteins decreased by 70, 36, and 25%, respectively. Apoptosis was restored rapidly after a 2 h refeeding following the phase III, accompanied by a significant increase in TNFalpha, TGFbeta1, and Cdx2 mRNA and the protein levels, compared to the phase III fasting values. The concomitant decreases in cytokines and Cdx2 and in apoptotic cells during phase III suggest the preservation of enterocytes during this critical fasting period in order to optimize nutrient absorption as soon as food is available and thus, to rapidly restore body mass.
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- Caroline Habold
- Centre d'Ecologie et Physiologie Energétiques, CNRS, 23 Rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France.
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Gluconeogenesis is responsible for the maintenance of blood glucose levels as hepatic glycogen stores become depleted. Traditionally, only liver and kidney have been believed to be capable of gluconeogenesis, but a gluconeogenic capacity for the small intestine has recently been proposed. This possibility is supported by the expression of key gluconeogenic enzymes and radiolabeled tracer experiments, but these data are not unequivocal and alternative roles can explain the presence of gluconeogenic enzymes in this organ.
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- Malcolm Watford
- Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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Understanding the mechanisms that determine postprandial fluctuations in blood glucose concentration is central for effective glycemic control in the management of diabetes. Intestinal sugar absorption is one such mechanism, and studies on its increase in experimental diabetes led us to propose a new model of sugar absorption. In the apical GLUT2 model, the glucose transported by the Na(+)/glucose cotransporter SGLT1 promotes insertion of GLUT2 into the apical membrane within minutes, so that the mechanism operates during assimilation of a meal containing high-glycemic index carbohydrate to provide a facilitated component of absorption up to three times greater than by SGLT1. Here we review the evidence for the apical GLUT2 model and describe how apical GLUT2 is a target for multiple short-term nutrient-sensing mechanisms by dietary sugars, local and endocrine hormones, cellular energy status, stress, and diabetes. These mechanisms suggest that apical GLUT2 is a potential therapeutic target for novel dietary or pharmacological approaches to control intestinal sugar delivery and thereby improve glycemic control.
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- George L Kellett
- The University of York, Department of Biology, York YO10 5YW, UK.
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