PMID- 20609265 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20101216 LR - 20211203 IS - 1475-2662 (Electronic) IS - 0007-1145 (Linking) VI - 104 IP - 10 DP - 2010 Nov TI - Effects of different dietary protein sources on expression of genes related to protein metabolism in growing rats. PG - 1421-8 LID - 10.1017/S000711451000231X [doi] AB - Protein metabolism is known to be affected by dietary proteins, but the fundamental mechanisms that underlie the changes in protein metabolism are unclear. The aim of the present study was to test the effects of feeding growing rats with balanced diets containing soya protein isolate, zein and casein as the sole protein source on the expression of genes related to protein metabolism responses in skeletal muscle. The results showed that feeding a zein protein diet to the growing rats induced changes in protein anabolic and catabolic metabolism in their gastrocnemius muscles when compared with those fed either the reference protein casein diet or the soya protein isolate diet. The zein protein diet increased not only the mRNA levels and phosphorylation of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), but also the mRNA expression of muscle atrophy F-box (MAFbx)/atrogin-1 and muscle ring finger 1 (MuRF1), as well as the forkhead box-O (FoxO) transcription factors involved in the induction of the E3 ligases. The amino acid profile of proteins seems to control signalling pathways leading to changes in protein synthesis and proteolysis. FAU - Luo, Junqiu AU - Luo J AD - Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Xinkang Road 46, Ya'an, Sichuan 625014, People's Republic of China. FAU - Chen, Daiwen AU - Chen D FAU - Yu, Bing AU - Yu B LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20100708 PL - England TA - Br J Nutr JT - The British journal of nutrition JID - 0372547 RN - 0 (Caseins) RN - 0 (Dietary Proteins) RN - 0 (Proteins) RN - 0 (Soybean Proteins) RN - 9010-66-6 (Zein) RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (mTOR protein, rat) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Animal Feed/analysis MH - Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena MH - Animals MH - Caseins/administration & dosage/chemistry MH - Dietary Proteins/administration & dosage/analysis/*pharmacology MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/*drug effects MH - Male MH - Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism MH - Phosphorylation MH - Proteins/*metabolism MH - Random Allocation MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Soybean Proteins/administration & dosage/chemistry MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism MH - Zein/administration & dosage/chemistry EDAT- 2010/07/09 06:00 MHDA- 2010/12/17 06:00 CRDT- 2010/07/09 06:00 PHST- 2010/07/09 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/07/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/12/17 06:00 [medline] AID - S000711451000231X [pii] AID - 10.1017/S000711451000231X [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Br J Nutr. 2010 Nov;104(10):1421-8. doi: 10.1017/S000711451000231X. Epub 2010 Jul 8.