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Muscle full effect after oral protein: time-dependent concordance and discordance between human muscle protein synthesis and mTORC1 signaling. Am J Clin Nutr. Aminoacidemia-induced muscle protein synthesis is transient. In the postabsortive state i.
In these circumstances, plasma EAA level maintenance and hence protein turnover relies on protein breakdown in skeletal muscles, the major body protein reservoir. Cahill GF Jr, Aoki TT. Starvation and body nitrogen.
Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. The impact of factors such as protein amount and quality, protein intake distribution throughout day and physical exercise on the balance between protein degradation and synthesis must be emphasized. Biolo G, Gastaldelli A, Zhang XJ, Wolfe RR. Protein synthesis and breakdown in skin and muscle: a leg model of amino acid kinetics.
Hence, muscle protein degradation always exceeds muscle protein synthesis in the postabsorptive state due to muscle protein catabolism and catabolic conditions determined by lack of dietary EAA intake. This is thought to be partly due to the AA leucine, as leucine alone is able to induce a muscle protein synthesis response via activation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 mTORC1 , a vital cell growth regulator.
Crozier SJ, Kimball SR, Emmert SW, Anthony JC, Jefferson LS. Oral leucine administration stimulates protein synthesis in rat skeletal muscle.
J Nutr. Louard et al. Louard RJ, Barrett EJ, Gelfand RA. Effect of infused branched-chain amino acids on muscle and whole-body amino acid metabolism in man. Clin Sci Lond.
Overnight branched-chain amino acid infusion causes sustained suppression of muscle proteolysis. tested this hypothesis in humans submitted to overnight fasting. In their study, the effects of intravenous BCAA infusion for 3 and 16 hours on muscle protein synthesis and degradation were investigated.
Both infusion protocols increased plasma BCAA levels, whereas plasma levels of other EAA decreased. The fact that muscle protein degradation was mitigated by isolated intake of three out of 11 EAA, but remained higher than muscle protein synthesis, suggested the catabolic state prevailed in order to release other EAA required for synthesis.
It seems therefore plausible to assume BCAA intake alone cannot create an anabolic state leading to muscle protein synthesis in excess of degradation, at least in theory. Another important question is whether anabolic pathway activation and increased muscle protein synthesis are separate events.
Rising insulin levels are a potent anabolic signaling pathway activator, but are not associated with enhanced muscle protein synthesis in the absence of EAA. Greenhaff PL, Karagounis LG, Peirce N, Simpson EJ, Hazell M, Layfield R, et al. Disassociation between the effects of amino acids and insulin on signaling, ubiquitin ligases, and protein turnover in human muscle.
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. In contrast, intake of small amounts 3g of EAA stimulates synthesis regardless of anabolic signaling pathway activation. Bukhari SS, Phillips BE, Wilkinson DJ, Limb MC, Rankin D, Mitchell WK, et al.
Intake of low-dose leucine-rich essential amino acids stimulates muscle anabolism equivalently to bolus whey protein in older women at rest and after exercise. Should muscle protein synthesis be limited by activation of factors triggering pathway initiating, increases in plasma EAA levels, however small, would not have this effect.
These findings demonstrated muscle protein synthesis in humans is limited by availability of the full range of EAA rather than anabolic signaling pathway activation. Combination of physical exercise resistance physical exercise in particular with protein intake maximizes and prolongs muscle protein synthesis stimulation for approximately 24 hours post-workout due to increased tissue sensitivity to anabolic properties of AA.
Burd NA, West DW, Moore DR, Atherton PJ, Staples AW, Prior T, et al. Enhanced amino acid sensitivity of myofibrillar protein synthesis persists for up to 24 h after resistance exercise in young men. Churchward-Venne TA, Burd NA, Phillips SM. Nutritional regulation of muscle protein synthesis with resistance exercise: strategies to enhance anabolism.
Nutr Metab Lond. The effects of leucine on human muscle protein synthesis were investigated by Churchward-Venne et al. Churchward-Venne TA, Burd NA, Mitchell CJ, West DW, Philp A, Marcotte GR, et al.
Supplementation of a suboptimal protein dose with leucine or essential amino acids: effects on myofibrillar protein synthesis at rest and following resistance exercise in men.
Participants of that study young, fit men consumed 25g of whey protein enriched with 3g of leucine enough to induce maximal muscle protein synthesis stimulation after resistance physical exercise 21 Moore DR, Robinson MJ, Fry JL, Tang JE, Glover EI, Wilkinson SB, et al.
Ingested protein dose response of muscle and albumin protein synthesis after resistance exercise in young men. or one quarter of that dose after one resistance physical exercise session.
Suboptimal and optimal doses of leucine-enriched whey protein similarly increased muscle protein synthesis for 1 to 3 hours post-workout; however, only the optimal 25g whey protein dose was able to sustain increased synthesis up to 5 hours. The muscle protein synthesis enhancing potential of higher leucine doses was investigated by the same research group.
Churchward-Venne TA, Breen L, Di Donato DM, Hector AJ, Mitchell CJ, Moore DR, et al. Leucine supplementation of a low-protein mixed macronutrient beverage enhances myofibrillar protein synthesis in young men: a double-blind, randomized trial. Participants of that study young, fit men consumed leucine-enriched whey protein after one session of resistance physical exercise, as follows: 25g of whey protein containing 3g of leucine; one quarter of that whey protein dose containing 0.
All treatments equally increased muscle protein synthesis for 1. However, only the suboptimal dose of whey protein containing 5g of leucine was as effective as 25g of whey protein in sustaining increased muscle protein synthesis for 4.
Potential reasons why the suboptimal whey protein dose containing 5g of leucine and high amounts of valine and isoleucine failed to sustain muscle protein synthesis were also investigated. It was argued that BCAA may compete for the same carrier in intestinal and muscle cells.
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Prior the experimental trial, participants completed a questionnaire of food preferences and a 3-day diet diary that represented their habitual daily intakes. The average energy intake 3, ± 1, kcal and macronutrient composition [protein: 2. Food parcels, which matched each participant's habitual energy and macronutrient intakes, were supplied for 48 h before the experimental trial.
Participants were instructed to consume only food and drink sources provided by investigators and to consume their final meal no later than on the evening before the experimental protocol.
Analyses of the diet diary and food prescription were performed by using a commercially available software program Wisp v3; Tinuviel software. All participants were instructed to refrain from physical exercise for 48 h before the experimental trial.
A schematic diagram of the experimental protocol is displayed in Figure 1. Participants reported to the laboratory at ~ following an overnight fast and measurements of height and weight were collected.
A cannula was inserted into a forearm vein of one arm, and a resting blood sample was collected. Subjects rested for ~75 min before a primed, continuous 2. Figure 1.
Schematic diagram of the infusion protocol. A baseline blood sample was collected before participants consumed an energy-rich, high-protein breakfast. A bout of unilateral leg-resistance exercise was performed 3 h after breakfast.
Muscle biopsies vastus lateralis were collected from the exercised leg immediately prior 0 h , 1-, or 4 h-post drink ingestion.
Drink ingestion was either a branched-chain amino acid containing beverage BCAA or placebo PLA. Multiple blood samples were collected throughout the protocol. Ex, exercise. Approximately min later, participants performed a single bout of unilateral leg resistance exercise which lasted ~25 min.
The warm up was followed by a 2 min rest period. Participants rested for 2 min between each set and were free to consume water ad libitum. If a participant could not complete a full set, the load was lowered by 4. Rating of perceived exertion RPE using the modified Borg scale Borg, was measured after each set.
Two further muscle biopsies were collected 1 and 4 h after drink ingestion. Different incisions ~1 cm apart, proximally from previous site were used for each biopsy in an attempt to minimize the impact of local inflammation from the previous biopsy sample.
Biopsy samples were immediately rinsed, blotted of excess blood, removed of visible fat and connective tissue, and divided into aliquots, before being frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at —80°C until later analysis.
Muscle samples were analyzed for enrichment of L-[ring- 13 C 6 ] phenylalanine in the intracellular pool and bound myofibrillar protein fractions, Furthermore, muscle was analyzed to measure the phosphorylation status of mTORC1-related signaling proteins.
Muscle tissue was analyzed for enrichment of L-[ring- 13 C 6 ] phenylalanine in the myofibrillar protein fraction. Myofibrillar proteins were isolated from ~30 mg tissue as previously described Moore et al.
Briefly muscle was snipped in ice-cold homogenizing buffer 50 mM Tris-HCL, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM EGTA, 10 mM β-glycerophosphate, and 50 mM sodium fluoride. The homogenate was shaken for 10 min prior to being centrifuged at 1, g for 10 min at 4°C. The pellet was then re-suspended in homogenization buffer, before being shaken and centrifuged as described above.
The myofibrillar fraction was separated from any collagen by dissolving the pellet in 0. The proteins were then precipitated by combining the supernatant with 1 M PCA before being centrifuged for 20 min at rpm at 4°C.
The remaining myofibrillar pellet was hydrolyzed overnight at °C in 0. Amino acids were then converted to their N-acetyl-n-propyl ester derivative and phenylalanine labeling was determined by gas-chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry GC-C-IRMS, Delta-plus XL, Thermofinnigan, Hemel Hempstead, UK.
Intracellular amino acids were liberated from ~20 mg of muscle. The frozen tissue was powdered under liquid nitrogen using a mortar and pestle and μL of 1 M perchloric acid PCA was added.
The mixture was centrifuged at 10, g for 10 min. The supernatant was then neutralized with 2 M potassium hydroxide and 0. The free amino acids from the intracellular pool were purified on cation-exchange columns as described above.
Muscle tissue 20—30 mg was powdered on dry ice and then homogenized in lysis buffer 50 mM Tris pH 7. Samples were placed on a shaker for 1 h at 4°C, before being centrifuged for 5 min at 6, g.
The supernatant was then used for determination of protein. A DC protein assay Bio Rad, Hertfordshire, UK was used for determining protein concentration. Equal amounts of protein were then boiled in Laemmli sample buffer mM Tris-HCl, pH 6.
Proteins were then transferred to a Protran nitrocellulose membrane Whatman, Dassel, Germany at V for 1 h.
Membranes were blocked using milk solution and then incubated overnight at 4°C with the appropriate primary antibody. The following morning the membrane was rinsed in wash buffer TBS with 0.
The membrane was then cleared of the antibody using wash buffer. Antibody binding was detected using enhanced chemiluminescence Millipore, Billerica, MA. Imaging and band quantification were carried out using a Chemi Genius Bioimaging Gel Doc System Syngene, Cambridge, UK.
Blood was collected in lithium heparin, EDTA-containing and serum separator tubes and centrifuged at 3, rpm for 15 min at 4°C. Plasma glucose and urea concentrations were analyzed using an instrumentation laboratory automated blood metabolite analyzer Instrumentation Laboratory , Instrumentation Laboratory, Cheshire, UK.
Serum insulin concentrations were measured using a commercially available ELISA DRG Diagnostics, USA following manufacturer's instructions. The 13 C 6 enrichments of phenylalanine and tyrosine were determined by GCMS by monitoring ions and for unlabeled and labeled phenylalanine and ions and for unlabeled and labeled tyrosine.
Once thawed, plasma samples were mixed with diluted acetic acid and purified using a cation-exchange column Bio-Rad laboratories Inc. The amino acids were then converted to their N-tert-butyldimethyl-silyl-N-methyltrifluoracetamide TBDMS derivative.
Simultaneously, concentrations of phenylalanine, leucine, threonine, isoleucine, and valine were determined using an internal standard method Tipton et al. The selected amino acids were chosen to monitor blood concentrations of essential, non-essential, and the BCAAs. Since the weight of both sample and internal standard was known, it was possible to calculate a tracer-to-tracee ratio.
Since the amino acid concentrations of the internal standard were known, it was possible to convert the tracer-to-tracee ratio into a concentration of each amino acid in plasma.
To determine 15 N 2 urea enrichments, 10 μL of plasma was mixed with μL ethanol. Samples were then left in the fridge for 30 min prior to centrifugation at 13, rpm for 20 min at 4°C. The supernatant was then removed and dried under nitrogen.
TBDMS and acetonitrile were added to the dried sample prior to heating at 90°C for 90 min. Samples were then run on GCMS and ions and were monitored. The fractional synthesis rate FSR of the myofibrillar protein fraction was calculated over the 4 h period using the standard precursor-product equation below:.
Where E B B 3 is the bound 13 C 6 phenylalanine enrichment measured in the biopsy collected at the 4h time point, B 1 is the bound 13 C 6 phenylalanine enrichment measured in the biopsy collected at the 0 h time point , E IC is the average IC phenylalanine enrichment of biopsies collected at 0 and 4 h, and t is time of tracer incorporation h.
Whole body phenylalanine rate of appearance was calculated by dividing the infusion rate by plasma phenylalanine enrichment, as described previously Tipton et al. Phenylalanine oxidation was calculated by using the phenylalanine balance model Thompson et al.
Briefly, whole body phenylalanine oxidation was determined from the calculation of the hydroxylation of L-[ring- 13 C 6 ]phenylalanine to L-[ring- 13 C 6 ]tyrosine Equation 3; Thompson et al.
Total area under the curve tAUC for serum insulin concentrations, phenylalanine Ra, and phenylalanine oxidation rates were calculated using Graphpad Prism V5. tAUC-values were calculated from drink ingestion to final blood sample and a baseline y-axis value of zero for each was used. Exercise variables, myofibrillar-MPS, and tAUC of serum insulin concentrations, and phenylalanine kinetics for the post-exercise period were analyzed using a paired samples one-tailed t -test.
Given the large variability associated with phosphorylation measurements of anabolic cell signaling, a priori we decided to explore differences over time for each trial separately. Where significance was detected, a LSD correction was used in post-hoc analysis.
All statistical tests were completed using statistical package for social sciences version All values are presented as means ± SEM, unless otherwise stated. Peak leucine ± 41 μM , isoleucine ± 23 μM , and valine ± 45 μM concentrations were observed at 0.
Over a 3. Figure 2. Plasma concentrations of A leucine, B isoleucine, C valine, D phenylalanine, and E threonine pre and post ingestion of either a branched-chain amino acid containing drink BCAA, closed circles or placebo drink PLA, open circles following resistance exercise. Data are displayed as means ± SE.
Muscle intracellular and blood plasma 13 C 6 phenylalanine enrichments were stable over the measured time period of tracer incorporation 0—4 h in both trials Figure 3. Plasma 13 C 6 tyrosine enrichments increased over time during the experimental protocol data not shown.
Trial order had no effect on intracellular and plasma tracer enrichments. Figure 3. Muscle intracellular A and plasma B 13 C 6 phenylalanine enrichments pre and post ingestion of either a branched-chain amino acid containing drink BCAA, black circles or placebo drink PLA, white circles following resistance exercise.
Figure 4. Phenylalanine kinetics, expressed as, total area under the curve for phenylalanine rate of appearance A and total area under the curve for phenylalanine oxidation B following the post-exercise ingestion of a branched-chain amino acid BCAA, black bars or placebo drink PLA, white bars.
Signaling data are displayed in Figure 5. Figure 5. Figure 6. Muscle myofibrillar fractional synthesis rate following the post-exercise ingestion of a branched-chain amino acid containing drink BCAA or placebo drink PLA.
Data are displayed as means bars and individual responses dots and lines. Taken together, these results demonstrate that BCAAs exhibit the capacity to stimulate myofibrillar-MPS, however a full complement of EAA could be necessary to stimulate a maximal response of myofibrillar-MPS following resistance exercise.
This information potentially has important nutritional implications for selecting amino acid supplements to facilitate skeletal muscle hypertrophy in response to resistance exercise training and the maintenance of muscle mass during aging, unloading, or disease.
The most likely physiological explanation for the apparent attenuation of the post-exercise response of myofibrillar-MPS to BCAA ingestion in comparison to an intact protein source relates to the limited availability of amino acids as substrate for MPS.
It is well-established that BCAA ingestion stimulates the activation of mTORC1 signaling pathways that regulate the translational activity of MPS Karlsson et al. Moreover, recent results demonstrate that the presence of the valine and isoleucine enhances the response of mTORC1 to leucine Moberg et al.
However, results from the present study suggest that ingesting BCAAs alone, without the other EAA, provides limited substrate for protein synthesis in exercised muscles.
Thus, the overall response of MPS is not maximized. Instead, the limited availability of EAA likely explains the qualitative difference in magnitude of the MPS response to ingestion of BCAAs alone and ingestion of similar amounts of BCAAs as part of intact whey protein Churchward-Venne et al.
Moreover, in the present study, we observed a decline in arterialized phenylalanine concentrations 3 h after drink ingestion in the BCAA trial. This finding is consistent with previous research that observed decreased EAA concentrations following leucine ingestion Hagenfeldt and Wahren, ; Nair et al.
Taken together, these data support the notion that EAA availability is the rate-limiting factor for stimulating a maximal MPS response to resistance exercise with BCAA ingestion.
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