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Unité du Métabolisme Protéino-Energétique, Université dAuvergne/Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine, Clermont-Ferrand, France and
Nestec Ltd., Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
3To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: boirie{at}clermont.inra.fr.
| ABSTRACT |
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KEY WORDS: protein turnover dietary protein digestion non-steady state milk proteins
| INTRODUCTION |
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Regulation of protein homeostasis during feeding results from a complex interplay among numerous factors, including protein intake, nonprotein energy sources [i.e., fat and carbohydrate content (1
)] and the physiological or pathological state of the subjects (2
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). When considering protein intake, it has long been recognized that the quantity and quality of protein, i.e., its digestibility and its composition in indispensable and conditionally indispensable amino acids (AA), can modulate protein metabolism (4
).
More recently, we have identified that protein digestion rate is a regulating factor of postprandial protein gain. As will be discussed further, this factor might offer an adjunctive dietary strategy to prevent protein losses in various pathophysiological situations. In this review, after a brief summary of our current knowledge on postprandial modifications of whole-body kinetics, we report the studies that led to the concept of "slow" and "fast" protein. We also describe the evolution of the concept in more physiological situations and its potential applications.
| Protein metabolism in response to continuous feeding |
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| Measurement of postprandial protein metabolism: steady-state vs. non-steady-state approach |
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However, the relevance of steady state measurements for the physiological feeding is questionable. Indeed, feeding in normal man is intermittent and generally consists of two or three meals per day, which is a non-steady-state situation. Moreover, the modifications of the two major factors affecting protein metabolism, i.e., AA and insulin, are quite different after a single meal than during a continuous feeding. Typically, after a single meal there is an acute but transient elevation in plasma AA concentration whereas, with the same amount of protein, continuous feeding results in a smaller but more prolonged increase of aminoacidemia (19
). Similar observations are done for plasma insulin. During a single meal hyperinsulinemia is higher and more transient than during prolonged feeding. As aforementioned, it seems logical that the differences in the magnitude of variations of aminoacidemia and insulinemia may affect protein metabolism.
Consequently, the reasons that led us to study the effect of a single meal on protein metabolism were that 1) compared with continuous feeding, it is more representative of human nutritional behavior, 2) modifications of plasma AA and insulin following a single meal ingestion are different from those observed at steady state and 3) these differential changes may affect protein metabolism parameters.
| Non-steady-state approach of protein metabolism after ingestion of a single meal |
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Total Leu Ra is the sum of the entry rate of leucine derived from whole-body proteolysis (endogenous Leu Ra) and of the exogenous Leu Ra. To characterize endogenous Leu Ra, exogenous Leu Ra is calculated by using the specific equations developed by Proietto et al. (24
), and it is subtracted to total Leu Ra.
Total Leu Rd corresponds to the sum of leucine either oxidized or used for protein synthesis [nonoxidative leucine disposal (NOLD)]. When L-[1-13C]-leucine is chosen as the intravenous tracer, leucine oxidation in non-steady state can be assessed by determining simultaneously and serially the [13C] O2 rate of production and ketoisocaproate enrichments (immediate precursor of leucine decarboxylation) as previously described (23
). To evaluate NOLD, leucine oxidation is subtracted to total Leu Rd.
The choice of an appropriate oral tracer is a crucial issue. Basically, the tracer should represent the metabolic fate of the tracee. In steady-state conditions, it has been shown that free L-[1-13C]-leucine added to CAS induced similar enrichments and fluxes to those observed with intrinsically L-[1-13C]-leucine-labeled CAS (18
). By contrast, in non-steady state, i.e., after a single meal ingestion, the time course of appearance in plasma of a free tracer is different from that of the same tracer bound to protein, as discussed below (23
). Indeed, protein and free AA behave differently at several digestive steps such as gastric emptying rate, dietary protein hydrolysis and absorption process. Therefore, in our experimental conditions only intrinsically labeled proteins were adequate as oral tracers.
| Production of intrinsically labeled milk proteins and their use for the study of human protein metabolism |
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To verify whether free tracers added to unlabeled proteins reflect the metabolic fate of the protein-bound AA, young men ingested intrinsically labeled WP, CAS or free labeled leucine added to an identical amount of unlabeled WP or CAS. The data obtained demonstrated that the plasma leucine enrichment profile was dependent upon the molecular form of the tracer (Fig. 1A
). With WP and the free tracer, the peak of enrichment of the oral tracer was 50% higher and occurred 40 min earlier than with labeled leucine incorporated into dietary protein (23
). With CAS, those differences were much more marked (Fig. 1
A). Indeed, with free [5,5,5-2H3]-leucine added to CAS, the increase in plasma enrichment was fast, high and transient, whereas the enrichment of the tracer bound to CAS was slower, lower and more persistent. Furthermore, regardless of the protein considered, with the free tracer, enrichment of oral labeled leucine in plasma was even higher than in the meal. Thus, the free tracer does not reflect the metabolic fate of AA bound to the dietary protein. Because plasma enrichment of the oral tracer was used to calculate the exogenous (Fig. 1
B) and endogenous Leu Ra, free oral tracer led to aberrant results on those parameters (23
). This error was particularly striking with whole-body proteolysis, for which values were close to zero or even negative in some subjects, when using the free oral tracer for calculations.
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| The slow and fast protein concept |
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30% for a long period of time (29These results strongly suggested that the digestion rate of dietary protein affects protein metabolism parameters and postprandial protein gain. In young subjects, slowly digested protein without nonprotein energy source was more efficient than a rapidly digested protein to improve postprandial protein gain.
| Validation of slow and fast protein concept |
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Therefore, another study was performed to compare postprandial leucine kinetics and mainly leucine balance after ingestion of different protein meals of identical AA profile and nitrogen content (Table 1)
but of different digestion rate (30
). For that purpose, two pairs of studies were performed in healthy young men. In the first pair of studies, modifications induced by ingestion of CAS, a slowly digested meal, were compared with those induced by a mixture of free AA mimicking the composition of CAS (CAA), a nitrogen source previously described as rapidly digested (31
). The second pair of studies compared the effects of a single WP meal, a rapidly digested protein, with a sequence of small meals made of WP given every 20 min during 240 min (RP-WP), taken as a paradigm of a slow digested protein.
As expected, CAA and WP were rapidly digested and induced strong, fast and transient hyperaminoacidemia (30
). By contrast, CAS and RP-WP were slowly digested and resulted in slower but more prolonged increases in plasma AA levels. The results concerning endogenous Leu Ra and NOLD were in agreement with those observed in our former work (29
). After ingestion of a "fast meal" endogenous Leu Ra was inhibited moderately and transiently, whereas with a "slow meal" the inhibition was persistent and more marked (30
). With the "fast meal" NOLD was strongly stimulated, whereas it was nearly absent with the "slow meal." In addition and as previously observed, postprandial leucine balance was lower with the "fast" than with the "slow meal" (Table 1)
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Collectively our studies support the general idea that the magnitude and the duration of changes in AA availability determine the anabolic effects of the protein digestion rate. Indeed, results concerning AA oxidation and protein synthesis are in agreement with a dose-dependent stimulation during gradual increases in AA availability (12
). The persistent inhibition of proteolysis induced by the "slow proteins" is unlikely due to insulin, because insulinemia was either not different (29
) or higher with the "fast proteins" (30
). It is more tempting to attribute this effect to duration of the postprandial hyperaminoacidemia, because AA have been shown to inhibit proteolysis (12
) and the hyperaminoacidemia is much more prolonged with "slow " than with "fast" proteins.
In summary, the protein digestion rate is unequivocally an independent regulating factor of postprandial protein retention (30
). Slowly digested protein, by inhibiting proteolysis, induces a higher postprandial protein gain than rapidly digested protein, which stimulates protein synthesis but also oxidation (29
,30
). However, extrapolations of these findings to human nutrition require verification of the sustainment of such effects in more practical feeding situations.
| Digestion rate and postprandial utilization of CAS and WP within mixed meals |
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To verify this hypothesis, two test meals, differing only in their protein composition (E-CAS containing CAS + energy vs E-WP containing WP + energy) and providing an identical amount of leucine (296 µmol/kg body weight), were ingested in two separate occasions by healthy young men (34
). As previously discussed (29
), the amount of protein ingested was necessarily lower with E-WP than with E-CAS. Each test meal was otherwise composed of identical amounts of carbohydrates and fat (0.75 and 0.13 g/kg body weight, respectively).
Our preliminary results suggest that, in complete meals, i) E-WP was still more rapidly absorbed than E-CAS and ii) postprandial leucine balance was still lower with the meal containing WP than with meal composed of CAS, although the differences in digestion rate and in leucine balance were less marked than when the proteins were given alone (30
). However, a more conclusive overview of the effects of CAS and WP in mixed meals will require adjustment of differences in nitrogen content between CAS and WP meals and confirmation of these preliminary results in young men ingesting an identical amount of protein.
| Perspectives: elderly subjects as a target population |
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Recently, it has been demonstrated in elderly women that protein feeding pattern modulated the enhanced protein retention because of an increase of daily protein intake from 0.75 to 1.05 g protein · kg-1 · day-1 (35
). Indeed, when 80% of the daily protein intake was consumed at lunch (a "pulse" pattern of feeding), the increase of nitrogen balance was higher than when the same intake was evenly distributed over four meals (a "spread" pattern). The better efficacy of the pulse pattern was attributed to the improvement of the responsiveness of protein synthesis to feeding via an increased disposal of AA to muscle. It was also possibly due to a better protein-sparing effect in the postabsorptive state. In other words, the fact that the evening meal of the pulse pattern contained little protein was probably responsible for the lower postabsorptive losses during the night after this meal. Therefore, both the high-protein lunch and the low-protein dinner contributed to the global protein-sparing effect (35
). On the surface, these results may appear to be inconsistent with the data obtained with the slow/fast proteins, because one might equate a "fast" protein with a pulse condition. However, the same group then reported that the positive effect of the pulse pattern did not exist in young women (36
). In fact, in this age group, there was a strong trend (P = 0.16) for a better (>50%) nitrogen balance with the "spread" pattern than with the "pulse" one. These results strongly suggest that the effect of the pattern of feeding on protein metabolism depends on age, with opposite effects in young and elderly subjects. In keeping with this hypothesis, we very recently completed short-term studies with slow/fast proteins in elderly subjects. Our preliminary results confirm that, contrary to what we had observed in young people, a fast protein (i.e., WP) induced a better postprandial leucine balance than a slow one (37
). Thus, the effects of the modifications of kinetics of delivery of dietary AA, whether they are achieved by modifying the pattern of intake or by using "slow or fast" proteins, are clearly age dependent. These series of studies also strongly suggest that, in healthy elderly people, short-term optimization of protein retention could be achieved by changing the pattern of protein feeding and/or the rate of absorption of the proteins. Further studies are needed to confirm this possibility over longer periods and in frail subjects.
For other populations, the relevance of slow or fast protein depends on alterations of protein metabolism that have to be prevented or corrected. Applications in different pathophysiological conditions are only speculative and require further investigation. However, as highlighted elsewhere (38
), the slow and fast protein concept may represent an adjunctive dietary strategy to optimize protein deposition in preterm infants, patients with wasting disorders (e.g., protein-energy malnutrition, critically ill patients) or subjects recovering from metabolic stress. It may also be applied to pathologies, such as renal diseases or hepatic encephalopathy, in which excessive AA concentrations have to be avoided while preserving the anabolic action of dietary proteins.
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| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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2 Supported by Nestlé Research Center, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Région Auvergne and the French Ministry of Research. ![]()
4 Abbreviations used: AA, amino acid; CAA, free AA mimicking the composition of casein; CAS, casein; E-CAS, casein + energy; Leu Ra, leucine rate of appearance; Leu Rd, leucine rate of disappearance; NOLD, nonoxidative leucine disposal; WP, whey protein; E-WP, whey protein + energy. ![]()
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