AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 270, Issue 2 E282-E291, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Influences of dietary energy and protein on leucine kinetics during feeding in healthy adults

N. R. Gibson, A. Fereday, M. Cox, D. Halliday, P. J. Pacy and D. J. Millward
Center for Nutrition and Food Safety, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.

Ten adult men were infused with L-[1-13C]leucine for 9 h commencing in the postabsorptive state (PA, 0-3 h), during the half-hourly feeding of low-protein meals (LP, protein = 2% calories, 3-6 h), and during feeding isoenergetic high-protein meals (HP, protein = 14% calories, 6-9 h). Leucine oxidation and turnover (protein synthesis and degradation) were determined from plasma alpha-[1-13C]ketoisocaproate enrichment and expired 13CO2 excretion measured during the third hour of each 3-h period. Plasma insulin increased markedly with feeding to a level that was maintained with both diets. The negative postabsorptive leucine balance became less negative during the LP meals (P < 0.01) and was positive with the HP meals (P < 0.01). The significant responses to feeding (all P < 0.01) were for oxidation -13% (PA-LP), +50% (LP-HP), and +29% (PA-HP); for degradation -24% (PA-LP), -30% (LP-HP), and -47% (PA-HP); and for synthesis -14% (PA-LP), +29% (LP-HP), and +11% (PA-HP). These data support a feeding mechanism involving both an insulin-mediated, protein-conserving influence of dietary energy that inhibits degradation, lowers amino acid levels, and reduces oxidation, and amino acid-mediated augmentation of the inhibition of degradation, a stimulation of synthesis, and an increase in oxidation when leucine dietary supply exceeds the capacity for its net deposition.

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