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Common gut microbial metabolites of dietary flavonoids exert potent protective activities in ?-cells and skeletal muscle cells.

ABSTRACT: Flavonoids are dietary compounds with potential anti-diabetes activities. Many flavonoids have poor bioavailability and thus low circulating concentrations. Unabsorbed flavonoids are metabolized by the gut microbiota to smaller metabolites, which are more bioavailable than their precursors. The activities of these metabolites may be partly responsible for associations between flavonoids and health. However, these activities remain poorly understood. We investigated bioactivities of flavonoid microbial metabolites [hippuric acid (HA), homovanillic acid (HVA), and 5-phenylvaleric acid (5PVA)] in primary skeletal muscle and ?-cells compared to a native flavonoid [(-)-epicatechin, EC]. In muscle, EC was the most potent stimulator of glucose oxidation, while 5PVA and HA simulated glucose metabolism at 25 ?M, and all compounds preserved mitochondrial function after insult. However, EC and the metabolites did not uncouple mitochonndrial respiration, with the exception of 5PVA at10 ?M. In ?-cells, all metabolites more potently enhanced glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) compared to EC. Unlike EC, the metabolites appear to enhance GSIS without enhancing ?-cell mitochondrial respiration or increasing expression of mitochondrial electron transport chain components, and with varying effects on ?-cell insulin content. The present results demonstrate the activities of flavonoid microbial metabolites for preservation of ?-cell function and glucose utilization. Additionally, our data suggest that metabolites and native compounds may act by distinct mechanisms, suggesting complementary and synergistic activities in vivo which warrant further investigation. This raises the intriguing prospect that bioavailability of native dietary flavonoids may not be as critical of a limiting factor to bioactivity as previously thought.

SUBMITTER: Bitner BF

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6263827 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Common gut microbial metabolites of dietary flavonoids exert potent protective activities in β-cells and skeletal muscle cells.

Bitner Benjamin F BF Ray Jason D JD Kener Kyle B KB Herring Jacob A JA Tueller Josie A JA Johnson Deborah K DK Tellez Freitas Claudia M CM Fausnacht Dane W DW Allen Mitchell E ME Thomson Alexander H AH Weber K Scott KS McMillan Ryan P RP Hulver Matthew W MW Brown David A DA Tessem Jeffery S JS Neilson Andrew P AP

The Journal of nutritional biochemistry 20180915

Flavonoids are dietary compounds with potential anti-diabetes activities. Many flavonoids have poor bioavailability and thus low circulating concentrations. Unabsorbed flavonoids are metabolized by the gut microbiota to smaller metabolites, which are more bioavailable than their precursors. The activities of these metabolites may be partly responsible for associations between flavonoids and health. However, these activities remain poorly understood. We investigated bioactivities of flavonoid mic ...[more]

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Common gut microbial metabolites of dietary flavonoids exert potent protective activities in ?-cells and skeletal muscle cells.

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Common gut microbial metabolites of dietary flavonoids exert potent protective activities in β-cells and skeletal muscle cells.

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