ReviewObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2025
Branched-chain amino acid metabolism: Pathophysiological mechanism and therapeutic intervention in metabolic diseases.
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- Causal role of genetically predicted impairment of branched-chain amino acid catabolism on insulin secretion and insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Pooled it
- Intergenerational associations between maternal body mass index before or during pregnancy with offspring metabolomics: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Pooled it
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- Transcriptomic analysis of palmitoylation-related genes reveals a preferential association with BCAA catabolism in adipose tissue from pediatric obesity.Endocrine connections · 2026Article
- Modulating Host Lipid Metabolism via Gut Microbiota: Therapeutic Potential of Plant-Derived Compounds.Phytotherapy research : PTR · 2026Review
- Amino Acid Metabolism in Health and Disease.MedComm · 2026Review
- Microbiota-Mediator-Host Signaling Networks in Metabolic Syndrome: From Mechanistic Insights to Therapeutic Targeting.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Effects of dietary standardized ileal digestible crude protein levels on growth performance, meat quality, and Cecal microbiota of Arbor Acres broilers.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Artesunate-based macromolecular therapy attenuates neutrophilic asthma by targeting the BCAT1/Succinate/NLRP3 metabolite-immunity cascade.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- Systemic metabolic dysfunction drives platelet-mediated inflammation, fibrogenesis, and hepatocarcinogenesis in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.Clinical and molecular hepatology · 2026Review
- Branched-Chain and Aromatic Amino Acids Mark Early Metabolic Shifts in Adults with Varying Adiposity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Association between Body Fat composition and serum branched chain amino acids in patients with visceral obesity.BMC endocrine disorders · 2026Article
- Plasma Amino Acid Responses to an Oral Glucose Challenge Relate More Strongly to Body Adiposity Than to Insulin Resistance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Gut microbiota composition and functional pathways associated with metabolic syndrome in Mexican adult women: cross-sectional analysis.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- The Effect of Angiotensin (1-7) on Serum Metabolomics in Obese Type 2 Diabetic Mice.Metabolites · 2026Article
- BCAT1 inhibits crotonate-related epigenetic modulation of metabolic genes in tumor-associated macrophages to counter immunosuppression.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Defective branched-chain amino acid catabolism promotes pulmonary fibrosis by inducing apoptosis resistance of myofibroblasts in mice.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Article
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Abstract
Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), including leucine, isoleucine, and valine, are essential for maintaining physiological functions and metabolic homeostasis. However, chronic elevation of BCAAs causes metabolic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2D), and metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD). Adipose tissue, skeletal muscle, and the liver are the three major metabolic tissues not only responsible for controlling glucose, lipid, and energy balance but also for maintaining BCAA homeostasis. Under obese and diabetic conditions, different pathogenic factors like pro-inflammatory cytokines, lipotoxicity, and reduction of adiponectin and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors γ (PPARγ) disrupt BCAA metabolism, leading to excessive accumulation of BCAAs and their downstream metabolites in metabolic tissues and circulation. Mechanistically, BCAAs and/or their downstream metabolites, such as branched-chain ketoacids (BCKAs) and 3-hydroxyisobutyrate (3-HIB), impair insulin signaling, inhibit adipogenesis, induce inflammatory responses, and cause lipotoxicity in the metabolic tissues, resulting in multiple metabolic disorders. In this review, we summarize the latest studies on the metabolic regulation of BCAA homeostasis by the three major metabolic tissues-adipose tissue, skeletal muscle, and liver-and how dysregulated BCAA metabolism affects glucose, lipid, and energy balance in these active metabolic tissues. We also summarize therapeutic approaches to restore normal BCAA metabolism as a treatment for metabolic diseases.
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