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Restricting branched-chain amino acids within a high-fat diet prevents obesity

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posted on 2023-05-21, 14:36 authored by Liu, M, Huang, Y, Zhang, H, Dawn AitkenDawn Aitken, Nevitt, MC, Rockel, JS, Pelletier, JP, Lewis, CE, Torner, J, Rampersaud, YR, Perruccio, AV, Mahomed, NN, Furey, A, Randell, EW, Rahman, P, Sun, G, Martel-Pelletier, J, Kapoor, M, Graeme JonesGraeme Jones, Felson, D, Qi, D, Zhai, G
Obesity is a global pandemic, but there is yet no effective measure to control it. Recent metabolomics studies have identified a signature of altered amino acid profiles to be associated with obesity, but it is unclear whether these findings have actionable clinical potential. The aims of this study were to reveal the metabolic alterations of obesity and to explore potential strategies to mitigate obesity. We performed targeted metabolomic profiling of the plasma/serum samples collected from six independent cohorts and conducted an individual data meta-analysis of metabolomics for body mass index (BMI) and obesity. Based on the findings, we hypothesized that restriction of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), phenylalanine, or tryptophan may prevent obesity and tested our hypothesis in a dietary restriction trial with eight groups of 4-week-old male C57BL/6J mice (n = 5/group) on eight different types of diets, respectively, for 16 weeks. A total of 3397 individuals were included in the meta-analysis. The mean BMI was 30.7 ± 6.1 kg/m2, and 49% of participants were obese. Fifty-eight metabolites were associated with BMI and obesity (all p ≤ 2.58 × 10-4), linked to alterations of the BCAA, phenylalanine, tryptophan, and phospholipid metabolic pathways. The restriction of BCAAs within a high-fat diet (HFD) maintained the mice's weight, fat and lean volume, subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue weight, and serum glucose and insulin at levels similar to those in the standard chow group, and prevented obesity, adipocyte hypertrophy, adipose inflammation, and insulin resistance induced by HFD. Our data suggest that four metabolic pathways, BCAA, phenylalanine, tryptophan, and phospholipid metabolic pathways, are altered in obesity and restriction of BCAAs within a HFD can prevent the development of obesity and insulin resistance in mice, providing a promising strategy to potentially mitigate diet-induced obesity.

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Publication title

Metabolites

Volume

12

Issue

4

Article number

334

Number

334

Pagination

1-16

ISSN

2218-1989

Department/School

Menzies Institute for Medical Research

Publisher

MDPI

Place of publication

Switzerland

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Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Treatment of human diseases and conditions; Overweight and obesity

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