ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2011
Emerging perspectives on essential amino acid metabolism in obesity and the insulin-resistant state.
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- Exploring Metabolic Signatures: Unraveling the Association with Obesity in Children and Adolescents.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
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- Paediatric obesity: a systematic review and pathway mapping of metabolic alterations underlying early disease processes.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Pooled it
- Metabolomic and Lipidomic Signatures of Metabolic Syndrome and its Physiological Components in Adults: A Systematic Review.Scientific reports · 2020Pooled it
- Are we close to defining a metabolomic signature of human obesity? A systematic review of metabolomics studies.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2019Pooled it
- Using Metabolomic Profiles as Biomarkers for Insulin Resistance in Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review.Journal of diabetes research · 2016Pooled it
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- Amino acid composition of plant protein-enriched wheat biscuits differentially affects postprandial amino acid responses of overweight/obese compared to normalweight subjects.European journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
- Dietary Lipid Quantity and Quality Modulate the Postprandial Metabolomic Profile in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.Nutrients · 2024Trial
- Resistant starch intake facilitates weight loss in humans by reshaping the gut microbiota.Nature metabolism · 2024Trial
- A randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial for pharmacological activation of BCAA catabolism in patients with type 2 diabetes.Nature communications · 2022Trial
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- Anesthesia and bariatric surgery gut preparation alter plasma acylcarnitines reflective of mitochondrial fat and branched-chain amino acid oxidation.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2017Trial
- Cross-talk between branched-chain amino acids and hepatic mitochondria is compromised in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2015Trial
- Effect of insulin sensitizer therapy on amino acids and their metabolites.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2015Trial
- Habitual physical activity and plasma metabolomic patterns distinguish individuals with low vs. high weight loss during controlled energy restriction.The Journal of nutrition · 2015Trial
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- The TyrRS cascade: circadian gating of neuronal DNA repair and its collapse in aging.GeroScience · 2026Review
- Blood-based obesity biomarkers and their relevance for disease risk.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2026Review
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Abstract
Dysregulation of insulin action is most often considered in the context of impaired glucose homeostasis, with the defining feature of diabetes mellitus being elevated blood glucose concentration. Complications arising from the hyperglycemia accompanying frank diabetes are well known and epidemiological studies point to higher risk toward development of metabolic disease in persons with impaired glucose tolerance. Although the central role of proper blood sugar control in maintaining metabolic health is well established, recent developments have begun to shed light on associations between compromised insulin action [obesity, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)] and altered intermediary metabolism of fats and amino acids. For amino acids, changes in blood concentrations of select essential amino acids and their derivatives, in particular BCAA, sulfur amino acids, tyrosine, and phenylalanine, are apparent with obesity and insulin resistance, often before the onset of clinically diagnosed T2DM. This review provides an overview of these changes and places recent observations from metabolomics research into the context of historical reports in the areas of biochemistry and nutritional biology. Based on this synthesis, a model is proposed that links the FFA-rich environment of obesity/insulin resistance and T2DM with diminution of BCAA catabolic enzyme activity, changes in methionine oxidation and cysteine/cystine generation, and tissue redox balance (NADH/NAD+).
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