scholarly journals Short-term insulin and nutritional energy provision do not stimulate muscle protein synthesis if blood amino acid availability decreases

2005 ◽  
Vol 289 (6) ◽  
pp. E999-E1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill A. Bell ◽  
Satoshi Fujita ◽  
Elena Volpi ◽  
Jerson G. Cadenas ◽  
Blake B. Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Insulin Infusion ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Protein Breakdown ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Muscle Protein Breakdown ◽  
Amino Acid Availability ◽  
Leg Muscle

Muscle protein synthesis requires energy and amino acids to proceed and can be stimulated by insulin under certain circumstances. We hypothesized that short-term provision of insulin and nutritional energy would stimulate muscle protein synthesis in healthy subjects only if amino acid availability did not decrease. Using stable isotope techniques, we compared the effects on muscle phenylalanine kinetics across the leg of an amino acid-lowering, high-energy (HE, n = 6, 162 ± 20 kcal/h) hyperglycemic hyperlipidemic hyperinsulinemic clamp with systemic insulin infusion to a low-energy (LE, n = 6, 35 ± 3 kcal/h, P < 0.05 vs. HE) euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp with local insulin infusion in the femoral artery. Basal blood phenylalanine concentrations and phenylalanine net balance, muscle protein breakdown, and synthesis (nmol·min−1·100 g leg muscle−1) were not different between groups. During insulin infusion, femoral insulinemia increased to a similar extent between groups and blood phenylalanine concentration decreased 27 ± 3% in the HE group but only 9 ± 2% in the LE group ( P < 0.01 HE vs. LE). Phenylalanine net balance increased in both groups, but the change was greater ( P < 0.05) in the LE group. Muscle protein breakdown decreased in the HE group (58 ± 12 to 35 ± 7 nmol·min−1·100 g leg muscle−1) and did not change in the LE group. Muscle protein synthesis was unchanged in the HE group (39 ± 6 to 30 ± 7 nmol·min−1·100 g leg muscle−1) and increased ( P < 0.05) in the LE group (41 ± 9 to 114 ± 26 nmol·min−1·100 g leg muscle−1). We conclude that amino acid availability is an important factor in the regulation of muscle protein synthesis in response to insulin, as decreased blood amino acid concentrations override the positive effect of insulin on muscle protein synthesis even if excess energy is provided.

Amino acid repletion does not decrease muscle protein catabolism during hemodialysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 292 (6) ◽  
pp. E1534-E1542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic S. C. Raj ◽  
Oladipo Adeniyi ◽  
Elizabeth A. Dominic ◽  
Michel A. Boivin ◽  
Sandra McClelland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Protein Breakdown ◽  
Protein Catabolism ◽  
Acid Infusion ◽  
Amino Acid Infusion ◽  
Muscle Protein Breakdown

Intradialytic protein catabolism is attributed to loss of amino acids in the dialysate. We investigated the effect of amino acid infusion during hemodialysis (HD) on muscle protein turnover and amino acid transport kinetics by using stable isotopes of phenylalanine, leucine, and lysine in eight patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Subjects were studied at baseline (pre-HD), 2 h of HD without amino acid infusion (HD-O), and 2 h of HD with amino acid infusion (HD+AA). Amino acid depletion during HD-O augmented the outward transport of amino acids from muscle into the vein. Increased delivery of amino acids to the leg during HD+AA facilitated the transport of amino acids from the artery into the intracellular compartment. Increase in muscle protein breakdown was more than the increase in synthesis during HD-O (46.7 vs. 22.3%, P < 0.001). Net balance (nmol·min−1·100 ml −1) was more negative during HD-O compared with pre-HD (−33.7 ± 1.5 vs. −6.0 ± 2.3, P < 0.001). Despite an abundant supply of amino acids, the net balance (−16.9 ± 1.8) did not switch from net release to net uptake. HD+AA induced a proportional increase in muscle protein synthesis and catabolism. Branched chain amino acid catabolism increased significantly from baseline during HD-O and did not decrease during HD+AA. Protein synthesis efficiency, the fraction of amino acid in the intracellular pool that is utilized for muscle protein synthesis decreased from 42.1% pre-HD to 33.7 and 32.6% during HD-O and HD+AA, respectively ( P < 0.01). Thus amino acid repletion during HD increased muscle protein synthesis but did not decrease muscle protein breakdown.

scholarly journals Exercise, Protein Metabolism, and Muscle Growth

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin D. Tipton ◽  
Robert R. Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Protein Metabolism ◽  
Muscle Hypertrophy ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Muscle Growth ◽  
Protein Breakdown ◽  
Muscle Protein Breakdown ◽  
Amino Acid Availability ◽  
Muscle Protein Metabolism

Exercise has a profound effect on muscle growth, which can occur only if muscle protein synthesis exceeds muscle protein breakdown; there must be a positive muscle protein balance. Resistance exercise improves muscle protein balance, but, in the absence of food intake, the balance remains negative (i.e., catabolic). The response of muscle protein metabolism to a resistance exercise bout lasts for 24-48 hours; thus, the interaction between protein metabolism and any meals consumed in this period will determine the impact of the diet on muscle hypertrophy. Amino acid availability is an important regulator of muscle protein metabolism. The interaction of postexercise metabolic processes and increased amino acid availability maximizes the stimulation of muscle protein synthesis and results in even greater muscle anabolism than when dietary amino acids are not present. Hormones, especially insulin and testosterone, have important roles as regulators of muscle protein synthesis and muscle hypertrophy. Following exercise, insulin has only a permissive role on muscle protein synthesis, but it appears to inhibit the increase in muscle protein breakdown. Ingestion of only small amounts of amino acids, combined with carbohydrates, can transiently increase muscle protein anabolism, but it has yet to be determined if these transient responses translate into an appreciable increase in muscle mass over a prolonged training period.

scholarly journals Stimulation of Muscle Protein Synthesis by Prolonged Parenteral Infusion of Leucine Is Dependent on Amino Acid Availability in Neonatal Pigs

2009 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona A. Wilson ◽  
Agus Suryawan ◽  
Maria C. Gazzaneo ◽  
Renán A. Orellana ◽  
Hanh V. Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Neonatal Pigs ◽  
Amino Acid Availability ◽  
Stimulation Of

Human muscle protein synthesis and breakdown during and after exercise

2009 ◽  
Vol 106 (6) ◽  
pp. 2026-2039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinod Kumar ◽  
Philip Atherton ◽  
Kenneth Smith ◽  
Michael J. Rennie
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Protein Turnover ◽  
Acute Exercise ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Mitochondrial Protein ◽  
Human Muscle ◽  
Muscle Protein Turnover ◽  
Amino Acid Availability

Skeletal muscle demonstrates extraordinary mutability in its responses to exercise of different modes, intensity, and duration, which must involve alterations of muscle protein turnover, both acutely and chronically. Here, we bring together information on the alterations in the rates of synthesis and degradation of human muscle protein by different types of exercise and the influences of nutrition, age, and sexual dimorphism. Where possible, we summarize the likely changes in activity of signaling proteins associated with control of protein turnover. Exercise of both the resistance and nonresistance types appears to depress muscle protein synthesis (MPS), whereas muscle protein breakdown (MPB) probably remains unchanged during exercise. However, both MPS and MPB are elevated after exercise in the fasted state, when net muscle protein balance remains negative. Positive net balance is achieved only when amino acid availability is increased, thereby raising MPS markedly. However, postexercise-increased amino acid availability is less important for inhibiting MPB than insulin, the secretion of which is stimulated most by glucose availability, without itself stimulating MPS. Exercise training appears to increase basal muscle protein turnover, with differential responses of the myofibrillar and mitochondrial protein fractions to acute exercise in the trained state. Aging reduces the responses of myofibrillar protein and anabolic signaling to resistance exercise. There appear to be few, if any, differences in the response of young women and young men to acute exercise, although there are indications that, in older women, the responses may be blunted more than in older men.

Effect of exercise and recovery on muscle protein synthesis in human subjects

1990 ◽  
Vol 259 (4) ◽  
pp. E470-E476 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Carraro ◽  
C. A. Stuart ◽  
W. H. Hartl ◽  
J. Rosenblatt ◽  
R. R. Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Aerobic Exercise ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Nitrogen Excretion ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Protein Breakdown ◽  
Muscle Protein Breakdown ◽  
Synthetic Rate ◽  
Fractional Synthetic Rate

Previous studies using indirect means to assess the response of protein metabolism to exercise have led to conflicting conclusions. Therefore, in this study we have measured the rate of muscle protein synthesis in normal volunteers at rest, at the end of 4 h of aerobic exercise (40% maximal O2 consumption), and after 4 h of recovery by determining directly the rate of incorporation of 1,2-[13C]leucine into muscle. The rate of muscle protein breakdown was assessed by 3-methylhistidine (3-MH) excretion, and total urinary nitrogen excretion was also measured. There was an insignificant increase in 3-MH excretion in exercise of 37% and a significant increase (P less than 0.05) of 85% during 4 h of recovery from exercise (0.079 +/- 0.008 vs. 0.147 +/- 0.0338 mumol.kg-1.min-1 for rest and recovery from exercise, respectively). Nonetheless, there was no effect of exercise on total nitrogen excretion. Muscle fractional synthetic rate was not different in the exercise vs. the control group at the end of exercise (0.0417 +/- 0.004 vs. 0.0477 +/- 0.010%/h for exercise vs. control), but there was a significant increase in fractional synthetic rate in the exercise group during the recovery period (0.0821 +/- 0.006 vs. 0.0654 +/- 0.012%/h for exercise vs. control, P less than 0.05). Thus we conclude that although aerobic exercise may stimulate muscle protein breakdown, this does not result in a significant depletion of muscle mass because muscle protein synthesis is stimulated in recovery.

Muscle Protein Metabolism in the Elderly: Influence of Exercise and Nutrition

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 588-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin D. Tipton
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Muscle Mass ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Protein Breakdown ◽  
Small Magnitude ◽  
Muscle Protein Breakdown ◽  
Metabolic Basis

Although the causes of sarcopenia are multi-factorial, at least some, such as poor nutrition and inactivity, may be preventable. Changes in muscle mass must be a result of net muscle protein breakdown over that particular time period. Stable isotope methodology has been used to examine the metabolic basis of muscle loss. Net muscle protein breakdown may occur due to a decrease in the basal level of muscle protein synthesis. However, changes of this type would likely be of small magnitude and undetectable by current methodology. Hormonal mediators may also be important, especially in association with forced inactivity. Net muscle protein breakdown may be also attributed to alterations in the periods of net muscle protein synthesis and breakdown each day. Reduced activity, combined with ineffectual nutrient intake, could lead to decreased net muscle protein balance. Chronic resistance exercise training clearly is an effective means of increasing muscle mass and strength in elderly individuals. Although sometimes limited, acute metabolic studies provide valuable information for maintenance of muscle mass with age. Key words: sarcopenia, inactivity, strength training, muscle protein synthesis, muscle hypertrophy

Control of Muscle Protein Synthesis as a Result of Contractile Activity and Amino Acid Availability: Implications for Protein Requirements

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (s1) ◽  
pp. S170-S176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Rennie
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Contractile Activity ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Protein Requirements ◽  
Amino Acid Availability ◽  
Separate Pathway

The major anabolic influences on muscle are feeding and contractile activity. As a result of feeding, anabolism occurs chiefly by increases in protein synthesis with minor changes in protein breakdown. Insulin has a permissive role in increasing synthesis, but the availability of amino acids is crucial for net anabolism. We have investigated the role of amino acids in stimulating muscle protein synthesis, the synergy between exercise and amino acid availability, and some of the signaling elements involved. The results suggest that muscle is acutely sensitive to amino acids, that exercise probably increases the anabolic effects of amino acids by a separate pathway, and that for this reason it is unlikely that accustomed physical exercise increases protein requirements.

scholarly journals Reduced amino acid availability inhibits muscle protein synthesis and decreases activity of initiation factor eIF2B

2003 ◽  
Vol 284 (3) ◽  
pp. E488-E498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisamine Kobayashi ◽  
Elisabet Børsheim ◽  
Tracy G. Anthony ◽  
Daniel L. Traber ◽  
John Badalamenti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Amino Acid Replacement ◽  
Plasma Amino Acid ◽  
Initiation Factor ◽  
Nucleotide Exchange ◽  
Amino Acid Availability ◽  
Amino Acid Concentrations

We have examined the effect of a hemodialysis-induced 40% reduction in plasma amino acid concentrations on rates of muscle protein synthesis and breakdown in normal swine. Muscle protein kinetics were measured by tracer methodology using [2H5]phenylalanine and [1-13C]leucine and analysis of femoral arterial and venous samples and tissue biopsies. Net amino acid release by muscle was accelerated during dialysis. Phenylalanine utilization for muscle protein synthesis was reduced from the basal value of 45 ± 8 to 25 ± 6 nmol · min−1 · 100 ml leg−1 between 30 and 60 min after start of dialysis and was stimulated when amino acids were replaced while dialysis continued. Muscle protein breakdown was unchanged. The signal for changes in synthesis appeared to be changes in plasma amino acid concentrations, as intramuscular concentrations remained constant throughout. The changes in muscle protein synthesis were accompanied by a reduction or stimulation, respectively, in the guanine nucleotide exchange activity of eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF)2B following hypoaminoacidemia vs. amino acid replacement. We conclude that a reduction in plasma amino acid concentrations below the normal basal value signals an inhibition of muscle protein synthesis and that corresponding changes in eIF2B activity suggest a possible role in mediating the response.

scholarly journals Combined in vivo muscle mass, muscle protein synthesis and muscle protein breakdown measurement: a ‘Combined Oral Stable Isotope Assessment of Muscle (COSIAM)’ approach

GeroScience ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Cegielski ◽  
Daniel J. Wilkinson ◽  
Matthew S. Brook ◽  
Catherine Boereboom ◽  
Bethan E. Phillips ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Muscle Mass ◽  
Protein Turnover ◽  
Skeletal Muscle Mass ◽  
Muscle Protein ◽  
Muscle Protein Synthesis ◽  
Protein Breakdown ◽  
Muscle Protein Breakdown

AbstractOptimising approaches for measuring skeletal muscle mass and turnover that are widely applicable, minimally invasive and cost effective is crucial in furthering research into sarcopenia and cachexia. Traditional approaches for measurement of muscle protein turnover require infusion of expensive, sterile, isotopically labelled tracers which limits the applicability of these approaches in certain populations (e.g. clinical, frail elderly). To concurrently quantify skeletal muscle mass and muscle protein turnover i.e. muscle protein synthesis (MPS) and muscle protein breakdown (MPB), in elderly human volunteers using stable-isotope labelled tracers i.e. Methyl-[D3]-creatine (D3-Cr), deuterium oxide (D2O), and Methyl-[D3]-3-methylhistidine (D3-3MH), to measure muscle mass, MPS and MPB, respectively. We recruited 10 older males (71 ± 4 y, BMI: 25 ± 4 kg.m2, mean ± SD) into a 4-day study, with DXA and consumption of D2O and D3-Cr tracers on day 1. D3-3MH was consumed on day 3, 24 h prior to returning to the lab. From urine, saliva and blood samples, and a single muscle biopsy (vastus lateralis), we determined muscle mass, MPS and MPB. D3-Cr derived muscle mass was positively correlated to appendicular fat-free mass (AFFM) estimated by DXA (r = 0.69, P = 0.027). Rates of cumulative myofibrillar MPS over 3 days were 0.072%/h (95% CI, 0.064 to 0.081%/h). Whole-body MPB over 6 h was 0.052 (95% CI, 0.038 to 0.067). These rates were similar to previous literature. We demonstrate the potential for D3-Cr to be used alongside D2O and D3-3MH for concurrent measurement of muscle mass, MPS, and MPB using a minimally invasive design, applicable for clinical and frail populations.

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