Cai Shuangfeng, Xie Ningning, Zheng Ling, Li Quan, Zhang Siyu, Huang Qinghua, Luo Wei, Wu Mei, Wang Yidan, Du Yilun, Deng Shao-Ping, Cai Lei
Engineering Research Center of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Biomedical Sciences and School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, 361021, PR China.
Food Safety Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China.
NPJ Sci Food. 2024 Jan 5;8(1):2. doi: 10.1038/s41538-023-00236-9.
Sweet taste receptors found in oral and extra oral tissues play important roles in the regulation of many physiological functions. Studies have shown that urine volume increases during the lifetime exposure to artificial sweeteners. However, the detailed molecular mechanism and the general effects of different artificial sweeteners exposure on urine volume remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the relationship between urinary excretion and the sweet taste receptor expression in mice after three artificial sweeteners exposure in a higher or lower concentration via animal behavioral studies, western blotting, and real-time quantitative PCR experiment in rodent model. Our results showed that high dose of acesulfame potassium and saccharin can significantly enhance the urine output and there was a positive correlation between K and urination volume. The acesulfame potassium administration assay of T1R3 knockout mice showed that artificial sweeteners may affect the urine output directly through the sweet taste signaling pathway. The expression of T1R3 encoding gene can be up-regulated specifically in bladder but not in kidney or other organs we tested. Through our study, the sweet taste receptors, distributing in many tissues as bladder, were indicated to function in the enhanced urine output. Different effects of long-term exposure to the three artificial sweeteners were shown and acesulfame potassium increased urine output even at a very low concentration.
口腔及口腔外组织中发现的甜味受体在许多生理功能的调节中发挥着重要作用。研究表明,终生接触人工甜味剂期间尿量会增加。然而,不同人工甜味剂接触对尿量影响的详细分子机制及总体效应仍不清楚。在本研究中,我们通过动物行为学研究、蛋白质印迹法以及啮齿动物模型中的实时定量PCR实验,研究了小鼠在接触高浓度或低浓度三种人工甜味剂后尿排泄与甜味受体表达之间的关系。我们的结果表明,高剂量的乙酰磺胺酸钾和糖精可显著增加尿量,且钾与排尿量之间存在正相关。对T1R3基因敲除小鼠进行的乙酰磺胺酸钾给药试验表明,人工甜味剂可能通过甜味信号通路直接影响尿量。编码T1R3的基因表达可在膀胱中特异性上调,但在肾脏或我们检测的其他器官中则不会。通过我们的研究表明,分布在膀胱等许多组织中的甜味受体在尿量增加中发挥作用。研究显示了长期接触三种人工甜味剂的不同效应,即使在非常低的浓度下,乙酰磺胺酸钾也会增加尿量。