Dietary cysteine alleviates sucrose-induced oxidative stress and insulin resistance

Clémence Blouet François Mariotti 1 Dalila Azzout-Marniche 1 Véronique Mathe 1 Takashi Mikogami Daniel Tomé 1 Jean-François Huneau 1
1 PNCA - Physiologie de la Nutrition et du Comportement Alimentaire
Abstract : Diets that promote oxidative stress favor impairment in glucose homeostasis. In this context, increasing the cysteine intake may be beneficial by maintaining glutathione status. We have investigated the effects of dietary cysteine on oxidative stress and glucose homeostasis in rats fed a high-sucrose (HS) diet. Rats were assigned for 6 weeks to a standard diet or to HS diets in which the protein source was either an alpha-lactalbumin-rich whey concentrate (a cysteine-rich protein) or the total milk proteins alone or supplemented with 5.8 or 20 g N-acetylcysteine per kilogram of food. Increasing the cysteine intake prevented HS-induced oxidative stress, as assessed by blood and tissue glutathione and carbonyl levels. At the same time, the HS-induced glucose intolerance, impaired postprandial glycemic control, and decrease in muscle and liver insulin-induced activation of insulin receptor substrate 1 and Akt were prevented by increasing the level of dietary cysteine, a major original finding. Of great interest was the observation that all beneficial effects of cysteine supplementation were duplicated by the consumption of a cysteine-rich protein. These data show that increasing the cysteine intake limits HS-induced impairment of glucose homeostasis and suggest that these effects are mediated by a reduction in oxidative stress.
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Clémence Blouet, François Mariotti, Dalila Azzout-Marniche, Véronique Mathe, Takashi Mikogami, et al.. Dietary cysteine alleviates sucrose-induced oxidative stress and insulin resistance. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Elsevier, 2007, 42 (7), pp.1089 - 1097. ⟨10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2007.01.006⟩. ⟨hal-01611432⟩

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