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Protein functions

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  • movement
  • structure
  • participation in and regulate metabolism
  • transport
  • communication
  • protection against infection
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How do we lose protein

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  • through epithelia
  • through urine/feces
  • synthesis non-proteion substance
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Primary structure

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  • linear number and order of amin acids
  • based on pairs in the genes that code the protein
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Secondary structure

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  • folding protein into a-helix or B-sheets or globular or fibrous
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Tertiary structure

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  • additional folding between R group interactions
  • hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic interactions, disulfide bridge, ionic bonding
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Quaternary structure

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  • interaction between multiple polypeptide chains
  • also includes prosthetic groups
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What are the 9 essential amino acids

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  • histidine
  • isoleucine
  • leucine
  • threonine
  • lysine
  • methionine
  • phenylalanine
  • tryptophan
  • valine
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What are the 2 semi-essential amino acids

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  • cysteine
  • tyrosine
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What are the reasons for conditionally essential amino acids

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  • underdeveloped/insufficient synthesis
  • increased requirement
  • decreased synthesis
  • defective synthesis
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Underdeveloped/insufficient synthesis - conditional amino acids

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  • neonates
  • cysteine
  • glutamine
  • glycine
  • tyrosine
  • arginine
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Increased requirement - conditional amino acids

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  • in stress, injuries, surgeries
  • glutamine
  • DNA biosynthesis, glucose formation, oxidative fuel for immune cells, interorgan transport, rids NH4
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Decreased synthesis - conditional amino acids

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  • arginine
  • synthesized mainly in small intestine and kidney
  • preterm infants cannot synthesize it
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Defective synthesis - conditional amino acids

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  • tyrosine
  • lacking enzyme to change phenylalanine to tyrosine
  • high amounts of phenylalanine is toxic to brain
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4 major phases of protein digestion

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  • mechanical digestion
  • gastric hydrolysis
  • pancreatic proteases
  • brush border peptide linkage hydrolysis
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  1. Mouth and salivary gland
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  • mechanical digestion
  • chewing/crushing/moistening protein rich foods
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  1. Stomach
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  • chemical digestion
  • gastric juice contains HCl to denature structure and activates pepsinogens to pepsin
  • pepsin breaks down smaller peptides to free amino acids and inhibits pepsinogen synthesis
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  1. Pancreas and small intestine (duodenum)
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  • polypeptides stimulate CCK release from duodenum
  • CCK stimulates pancreas to release pancreatic juice (bicarbonate and enzymes)
  • enteropeptidase convert trypsinogen to trypsin
  • trypsin activate chymotrypsin, elastase, carbopeptidase, lipase
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Endopeptidases function and examples

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  • hydrolyze internal peptide bonds within peptide chains
  • releases smaller peptides
  • ex) trypsin, chymotrypsin, elastase
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Exopeptidases function and examples

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  • zinc containing
  • releases single amino acids from one end
  • carboxypeptidase A and carboxypeptidase B
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Incretins

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  • hormone that stimulates insulin secretion in response to meals
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2 most important incretin hormones

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  • glucose-like peptide (GLP-1)
  • glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP)
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Function of DPP-4 and DPP-4 inhibitors

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  • DPP-4 inhibitors (drugs) block DPP-4
  • DPP-4 enzyme inactivates incretins
  • incretins stimulate insulin release and inhibit glucagon release
  • lowers blood glucose
  • DPP-4 inhibitors used in diabetes
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Sources of exogenous and endogenous protein

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  • exogenous: diet
  • endogenous: digestive juices, desquamated intestinal cells
  • fecal excretion: saliva, gastric juice, pancreatic enzymes
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3 phases of digestion in intestine

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  • luminal
  • membrane
  • cytoplasmic
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What is different in protein brush border absorption
- enzymes can take in tripeptides, dipeptides and amino acids and further breakdown in cytoplasm
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What are the 6 transport enzyme systems
- brush border peptidases - brush border amino acid transport system - brush border peptide transport system - cytoplasmic peptidases - basolateral amino acid transport system - basolateral peptide transport system
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2 forms of transport exchanger
- H+/peptide cotransporter in apical brush border membrane - Na+/H+ exchanger in apical brush border membrane
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5 classifications of amino acid transporters on brush border membrane
- B - neutral AA (Na+) - apical - B+ neutral and basic AA (Na+,Cl-) - apical - Y+ basic AA (none) - basolateral - IMINO imino acids (Na+) - apical - X- acidic AA (H+, Na+, K+) - apical
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Sodium-dependent amino acid transport
- important when amino acids is low
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What part of small intestine has most absorption
- jejunum
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Products of protein fermentation in large intestine
- BCFAs, ammonia, amines, H2S, phenols, indoles
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Rate of protein digestion/absorption
- structure (whey vs casein) - food matrix (fibre) - oligopeptide vs free amino acid - neutral before basic/acid - essential before non-essential
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2 ways of regulation amino acid absorption
- change in absorptive surface (hyperplasia and hypertrophy associated with obesity, diabetes, pregnancy, lactation) - change in individual enterocytes (gene expression of peptidases and membrane transporters)
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How does TPN administration effect absorption
- intestine shrinkage and reduced absorptive capacity
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Intact protein are generally not absorbed due to
- brush border proteases - no transporters on basolateral membrane for proteins - proteins cannot permeate through enterocyte tight junctions
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Colostrum benefits for newborns
- provides nutrients for growth - immunoglobins for protection - growth factors that promote maturation of GI tract
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What is celiac disease
- gliadin in gluten disrupts tight junctions between epithelial cells - protease resistant bioactive peptides of gliadin enter ciruclation - cause immune response, inflammation, and attacks intestinal lining
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4 roles of enterocytes in amino acid absorption
- pass through enterocyte unmetabolized - used for protein synthesis in enterocyte - partially or completely oxidized for energy - intermediary metabolic conversion
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3 causes of protein malabsorption
- severe pancreatic dysfunction - extensive intestinal resection - severe chronic malnutrition
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3 metabolic fates of free amino acids in body
- used for protein synthesis in liver - used as precursors for non-protein nitrogenous molecules - catabolism with excretion of nitrogen
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What is transamination
- transfer of amino group to a-keto acid to form new amino acid - allows body to synthesize non-essential amino acids from essential and non essential amino acids
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What is oxidative deamination
- nitrogen is lost and amino acid is catabolized
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glutamate + pyruvate <--ALT-->
a-ketoglutarate + alanine
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What 8 amino acids are actively transaminated in human tissues
Ala, Asp, Glu, Tyr, Ser, Val, Eli, Leu
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What 3 amino acids do not participate in transamination reactions
Lys, Thr, Pro
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Amino groups of many AAs are funneled through which amino acid
Glu
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Alanine aminotransferase (ALT)
- found mostly in liver but also in kidney, heart, muscle - cytoplasmic enzyme - glutamate + pyruvate <--> a-ketoglutarate + alanine
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Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)
- found mostly in heart but also liver, muscle, kidney - glutamate + oxaloacetate <--> a-ketoglutarate + aspartate
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AST/ALT ratio in liver disease
- less than low - ALT is higher than AST
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Deamination
- liberation of free ammonia from amino acid coupled with oxidation - takes place in mitochondria of liver/kidney - provides NH3 for urea synthesis and alpha keto acids for energy production - usually glutamate
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What might increase the urea cycle
high protein diets - increase enzyme activity/concentration
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What also might increase the urea cycle
early starvation - increase activity because proteins are degraded - if N excretion fails, increase in circulating free ammonia, toxic
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Low protein diets are given to patients with
renal disease - kidneys can't excrete urea (build up of toxic nitrogen)
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Why is ammonia toxic?
- raise pH to damaging level (interferes with electron transport chain, cell damage) - neurotoxicity
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Glucogenic amino acids
- C skeletons --> pyruvate or CAC intermediates
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Ketogenic amino acids
- C skeletons --> acetyl CoA or acetoacetate - acetyl CoA can enter CAC only if sufficient oxaloacetate - when short on energy, acetyl CoA pushed to ketone synthesis
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2 ketogenic amino acids
Lys, Leu
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What amino acid is used in muscle transamination
- alanine - alanine --> pyruvate - pyruvate --> glucose
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5 steps of protein synthesis
1. DNA transcription 2. RNA processing 3. mRNA stability 4. mRNA translation 5. post-translational protein modifications and folding
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3 different protein alterations in diseases
- abnormal genes - abnormal processing of proteins during synthesis - inability to degrade abnormal proteins
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SNPs
- single nucleotide polymorphism - one substitution alters function
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SNPs - sickle cell anemia
- alters hemoglobin molecule - deoxygenated proteins polymerize and precipitate within RBC - sickle shape and cannot carry oxygen
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SNPs - familial hypercholesterolemia
- defects encoding LDL receptor - cannot take up cholesterol into cell - high serum cholesterol - early atherosclerosis
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SNPs - connective tissue disorder
- alters collagen structure - interferes with folding of triple helix or fibril structure
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SNPs - neonatal diabetes
- improper folded proteins interfere with other cell processes that kill cells that produce insulin - type 1 diabetes
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2 importance of protein degradation
- regulation protein abundance - elimination abnormal proteins
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4 protein degradation pathways
- ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) - ER-associated degradation (ERAD) - autophagy-lysosomal pathway (ALP) - calcium/calpain-dependent system
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UPS system
- proteins to be degraded are tagged with ubiquitin in ATP requiring reaction - activity is up-regulated during sepsis, cancer, trauma, starvation - degraded in proteasome
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Diseases associated with malfunctioning UPS
- neurodegenerative - Alzheimer's disease (amyloid plaque formation) - cardiovascular - atherosclerosis (UPS up-regulation gets rid of proteins we need)
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Autophagy-lysosomal pathway (ALP)
- sequestration, fusion, acidification, digestion - lysosome contains digestive enzymes (proteases) - no energy needed - increased in liver cells by glucagon
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Parkinson's disease
- UPS and ALP dysfunction - protein aggregation and death of dopamine neurons
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Two-compartment model of protein turnover
- free amino acid pool - body protein pool
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Two components of N metabolism
- protein turnover (synthesis/degradation) - nitrogen balance (intake/output)
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Protein is excreted in
- urine, feces, hair, skin, intestinal cells sloughing, mucus, enzyme secretion
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Protein turnover accounts for % of BMR
- 10-25% - energetically expensive
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Protein turnover is necessary for:
- excretion of nitrogen - mobilization of AAs - degradation and replacement of proteins - changes of protein in response to changes in nutrition and physiological conditions
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What is main site of AA degradation
- liver - secondary sites: muscle and small intestine
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AAs not used for protein/peptide synthesis are
- partially oxidized and C skeletons converted to other compounds depending on body needs - converted to non-protein derivatives
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Free amino acid pool is low for
essential AAs
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Free amino acid pool is high for
Ala, Glu, Gln
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Why is free pool of essential AAs limited?
must be continually replenished as excess is toxic - can affect transport into brain
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Protein catabolic signals
- glucagon, thyroid hormones, glucocorticoids, catecholamines, cytokines
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Protein anabolic signals
- insulin, amino acids
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Half lives of regulatory proteins is
- rapid turnover - GLP and insulin
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Half lives of non-regulatory enzymes and transport is
- slow turnover - hemoglobin and albumin
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Half lives of structural proteins is
- slowest - collagen
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Age related muscle loss/atrophy caused by
- anorexia of aging malnutrition - low protein intake - anabolic resistance physical inactivity - muscle protein dyshomeostatis
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What can inflammation result in and what are the causes
- muscle wasting - burns, malnutrition, cancer, sepsis
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What proteins increase in state of inflammation
- glucocorticoids - catecholamines - inflammatory cytokines - interfere with insulin signaling
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What happens when you work out your muscles
- muscle stress --> local increase in protein synthesis
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3 factors that contribute to greater protein synthesis
- energy - amino acids - exercise
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What happens when you ingest essential AAs
- decrease protein degradation - increase acute systemic protein synthesis - decrease glucagon and increase insulin - muscle acts as AA buffer
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What 2 factors increase anabolism
- hypoxia - resistance training
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EAR for protein intake
- males and females 19+ - 0.66g/kg/day - lowest amount to maintain N balance in body
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RDA for protein intake
- 0.8g/kg/day
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Who needs more than RDA for protein intake
- children (highest in less than 6 months) - pregnancy and lactation
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AMDR for protein intake
- 10-35%
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When energy is insufficient, amino acids will be used for...
fuel rather than for protein synthesis
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When amino acids are oxidized as a fuel, most of their carbon...
enters the TCA cycle and other central pathways of fuel metabolism
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Inadequate protein -->
decreased protein synthesis
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Inadequate energy -->
body will utilize dietary protein
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Acute protein deficiency impacts
- cells with rapid turnover
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Longer term/chronic deficiency impacts
- all organs especially functions of immune system, small intestine, kidneys, brain
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Protein nutritional status evaluation by
- plasma proteins - assessment of rapidly growing tissues (skin and hair) - lean body mass
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Marasmus
- energy and protein deficiency - starvation - muscle wasting, fat loss, growth retardation
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Kwashiorkor
- adequate energy and protein deficiency - more dangerous - same as marasmus but edema, swollen abdomen, fatty liver, diarrhear, anemia - decreased synthesis of enzymes and hypoalbuminemia
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Cautions for high protein diet
- short term: weight loss, calcium loss, ketoacidosis - rabbit starvation - low amounts of fat and carb - adverse effects with renal patients
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2 components of protein quality
- amino acid pattern or score - digestibility
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2 components of protein digestibility
- hydrolysis - availability of AAs - chemical integrity (processing and cooking)
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True digestibility Dt vs apparent digestibility Da
- Dt is Da corrected for endogenous protein losses - Da < Dt
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Animal protein is ___ digestibility and plant protein is ___ digestibility
- high 90% - lower 70-90%
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What effects plant protein digestibility
- encapsulated in cell wall and cannot be accessed - trypsin inhibitors found in legumes and cereals inhibit protein enzymes
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What factors effect amino acid availability
- food processing and storage - heat on lysine - treatment with strong acids - ultrastructural changes
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Major factor determining protein quality
amino acid pattern
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What is amino acid pattern
- most deficient essential amino acid becomes the limiting AA
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AAs higher than limiting AA get ___ and AAs lower than limiting AA get ___
- oxidized - protein synthesis
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Indicator amino acid oxidation method (IAAO)
when 1 indispensable amino acid (DAA) is deficient for protein synthesis, then all other IDAA including the indicator will be oxidized
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4 major limiting AAs common in foods
- lysine - methionine - threonine - tryptophan
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Method to assess protein quality
protein digestibility-corrected amino acid scores (PDCAAS) - AA score x digestibility - used to determine % daily value on food labels
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Animal sources contain all essential AAs except
gelatin - lacks Trp
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Possible vegan inadequacies
- protein - Fe, Vit B12, Zn (found in meat and eggs) - Ca, Vit D, Vit B2 (found in dairy) - energy
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Why vegetarian?
- helps maintain healthy body weight and lowers blood pressure - lowers risk of heart disease and T2D - meat consumption associated with heart disease, T2D, colon cancer
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excellent source of protein, very high protein, rich in protein has to have protein rating of
40 or more
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more protein, higher protein, high in protein has to have protein rating of
20 or more

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