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- Title
Restriction of essential amino acids dictates the systemic metabolic response to dietary protein dilution.
- Authors
Yap, Yann W.; Rusu, Patricia M.; Chan, Andrea Y.; Fam, Barbara C.; Jungmann, Andreas; Solon-Biet, Samantha M.; Barlow, Christopher K.; Creek, Darren J.; Huang, Cheng; Schittenhelm, Ralf B.; Morgan, Bruce; Schmoll, Dieter; Kiens, Bente; Piper, Matthew D. W.; Heikenwälder, Mathias; Simpson, Stephen J.; Bröer, Stefan; Andrikopoulos, Sofianos; Müller, Oliver J.; Rose, Adam J.
- Abstract
Dietary protein dilution (DPD) promotes metabolic-remodelling and -health but the precise nutritional components driving this response remain elusive. Here, by mimicking amino acid (AA) supply from a casein-based diet, we demonstrate that restriction of dietary essential AA (EAA), but not non-EAA, drives the systemic metabolic response to total AA deprivation; independent from dietary carbohydrate supply. Furthermore, systemic deprivation of threonine and tryptophan, independent of total AA supply, are both adequate and necessary to confer the systemic metabolic response to both diet, and genetic AA-transport loss, driven AA restriction. Dietary threonine restriction (DTR) retards the development of obesity-associated metabolic dysfunction. Liver-derived fibroblast growth factor 21 is required for the metabolic remodelling with DTR. Strikingly, hepatocyte-selective establishment of threonine biosynthetic capacity reverses the systemic metabolic response to DTR. Taken together, our studies of mice demonstrate that the restriction of EAA are sufficient and necessary to confer the systemic metabolic effects of DPD. Dietary protein dilution, where protein is reduced and replaced by other nutrient sources without caloric restriction, promotes metabolic health via the hepatokine Fgf21. Here, the authors show that essential amino acids threonine and tryptophan are necessary and sufficient to induce these effects.
- Subjects
LOW-protein diet; ESSENTIAL amino acids; FIBROBLAST growth factors; THREONINE; LOW-calorie diet; PROTEINS; TRYPTOPHAN; DILUTION
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-020-16568-z