Longitudinal metabolomics analysis reveals the acute effect of cysteine and NAC included in the combined metabolic activators

Growing evidence suggests that the depletion of plasma NAD+ and glutathione (GSH) may play an important role in the development of metabolic disorders. The administration of Combined Metabolic Activators (CMA), con-sisting of GSH and NAD+ precursors, has been explored as a promising therapeutic strategy to target multiple altered pathways associated with the pathogenesis of the diseases. Although studies have examined the thera-peutic effect of CMA that contains N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) as a metabolic activator, a system-wide comparison of the metabolic response to the administration of CMA with NAC and cysteine remains lacking. In this placebo-controlled study, we studied the acute effect of the CMA administration with different metabolic activators, including NAC or cysteine with/without nicotinamide or flush free niacin, and performed longitudinal untargeted-metabolomics profiling of plasma obtained from 70 well-characterized healthy volunteers. The time-series metabolomics data revealed the metabolic pathways affected after the administration of CMAs showed high similarity between CMA containing nicotinamide and NAC or cysteine as metabolic activators. Our analysis also showed that CMA with cysteine is well-tolerated and safe in healthy individuals throughout the study. Last, our study systematically provided insights into a complex and dynamics landscape involved in amino acid, lipid and nicotinamide metabolism, reflecting the metabolic responses to CMA administration containing different metabolic activators.

Dergi

FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Yıl

2023

Cilt

204

Sayfa

347-358

ISSN

0891-5849

eISSN

1873-4596

DOI

10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.05.013

WoS UID

WOS:001014625400001