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The adverse metabolic effects of branched-chain amino acids are mediated by isoleucine and valine
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SUMMARY Low protein diets promote metabolic health in rodents and humans, and the benefits of low protein diets are recapitulated by specifically reducing dietary levels of the three branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), leucine, isoleucine, and valine. Here, we demonstrate that each BCAA has distinct metabolic effects. A low isoleucine diet reprograms liver and adipose metabolism, increasing hepatic insulin sensitivity and ketogenesis, and increasing energy expenditure, activating the FGF21-UCP1 axis. Reducing valine induces similar but more modest metabolic effects, while these effects are absent with low leucine. Reducing isoleucine or valine rapidly restores metabolic health to diet-induced obese mice. Finally, we demonstrate that variation in dietary isoleucine levels helps explain body mass index differences in humans. Our results reveal isoleucine as a key regulator of metabolic health and the adverse metabolic response to dietary BCAAs, and suggest reducing dietary isoleucine as a new approach to treating and preventing obesity and diabetes.
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- Yu, D., Richardson, N. E., Green, C. L., Spicer, A. B., Murphy, M. E., Flores, V., Jang, C., Kasza, I., Nikodemova, M., Wakai, M. H., Tomasiewicz, J. L., Yang, S. E., Miller, B. R., Pak, H. H., Brinkman, J. A., Rojas, J. M., Quinn, W. J., Cheng, E. P., Konon, E. N., Haider, L. R., Finke, M., Sonsalla, M., Alexander, C. M., Rabinowitz, J. D., Baur, J. A., Malecki, K. C., & Lamming, D. W.
- Venue
- Cell Metabolism
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-05
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 905-922.e6
- ISSN
- 1550-4131 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3156651346
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- 391
- References
- 96
- FWCI
- 38.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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