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ArticleBiology of sport2025

N-Lactoyl amino acids as metabolic biomarkers differentiating low and high exercise response.

Maha Sellami, Khaled Naja, Shamma Almuraikhy, Najeha Anwardeen, Rinat I Sultanov, Eduard V Generozov, Ildus I Ahmetov, Mohamed A Elrayess

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Article in Biology of sport, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Maha SellamiPhysical Education Department (PE), College of Education, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Khaled NajaBiomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha P.O Box 2713, Qatar.
Shamma AlmuraikhyBiomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha P.O Box 2713, Qatar.
Najeha AnwardeenBiomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha P.O Box 2713, Qatar.
Rinat I SultanovDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia.
Eduard V GenerozovDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia.
Ildus I AhmetovDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia.
Mohamed A ElrayessBiomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha P.O Box 2713, Qatar.

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Abstract

Aerobic physical exercise has significant benefits for cardiovascular health; however, some individuals experience no benefit or even adverse effects. One reason for poor tolerance to aerobic exercise may be a low percentage of slow-twitch (oxidative) muscle fibers. This study aims to identify the metabolic signatures associated with low and high response to exercise by comparing the metabolic profiles of participants categorized according to their improvement of the 6-minute walking distance. In this study, pre- and postexercise intervention measurements of the 6-minute walking distance were conducted in forty-three lean and overweight young women, followed by non-targeted metabolomics analysis of 1039 known metabolites. An independent validation cohort comprising 791 individuals from the GTEx project was used to assess the gene expression of selected targets. The results indicated that a low improvement in the 6-minute walking distance (Δ 6-MWD = 27 meters) was associated with higher serum levels of N-lactoyl amino acid metabolites, particularly the exercise-inducible metabolite N-lactoyl phenylalanine (Lac-Phe) (FDR = 0.016), compared to high responders. Our results were corroborated in an independent validation cohort, which showed that the gene expression of cytosolic nonspecific dipeptidase (

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6-minutes walking testBiomarkersExercise responseMetabolomicsN-lactoyl amino acidsPhe-Lac

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