title: Adaptive changes in translation initiation activities for rat pancreatic protein synthesis with feeding of a high-protein diet.
abstract: We have previously demonstrated that dietary protein induced pancreatic hypergrowth in pancreaticobiliary diverted (PBD) rats. Dietary protein and dietary amino acids stimulate protein synthesis by regulating translation initiation in the rat skeletal muscle and liver. The aim of the present study was to determine whether feeding a high-protein diet induces activation of translation initiation for protein synthesis in the rat pancreas. In PBD rats in which the bile-pancreatic juice was surgically diverted to the upper ileum for 11-13 days, pancreatic dry weight and protein content were doubled compared with those in sham rats and further increased with feeding of a high-protein diet (60% casein diet) for 2 days. These pancreatic growth parameters were maintained at high levels for the next 5 days and were much higher than those of sham rats fed a high-protein diet. In both sham and PBD rats, feeding of a high-protein diet for 2 days induced phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E-binding protein 1 and 70-kDa ribosomal protein S6 kinase, indicating the activation of the initiation phase of translation for pancreatic protein synthesis. However, this increased phosphorylation returned to normal levels on Day 7 in PBD but not in sham rats. We concluded that feeding a high-protein diet induced pancreatic growth with increases in the translation initiation activities for pancreatic protein synthesis within 2 days and that prolonged feeding of a high-protein diet changed the initiation activities differently in sham and PBD rats.
authors.affiliation: Division of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hashi
authors.forename: Fumiaki
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yoshizawa
authors.forename: Emi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Onozuka
authors.forename: Momoko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogata
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hara
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000187:drug effects*; D000818:Animals; D015904:Biliopancreatic Diversion; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D004435:Eating; D039642:Eukaryotic Initiation Factors / Q000096:biosynthesis; D008297:Male; D010179:Pancreas / Q000378:metabolism*; D010442:Peptide Chain Initiation, Translational / Q000502:physiology*; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis / Q000187:drug effects; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D038762:Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases, 70-kDa / Q000096:biosynthesis; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D004044:Dietary Proteins; D039642:Eukaryotic Initiation Factors; D011494:Protein Kinases; C546845:mTOR protein, rat; D038762:Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases, 70-kDa; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases; C448901:ribosomal protein S6 kinase, 70kD, polypeptide 1