Journal
FOOD & FUNCTION
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 1123-1132Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7fo01626c
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- Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth
- Austrian National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development
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Capsaicin, the highly pungent principle of red pepper, has been demonstrated to have anti-obesity properties by affecting energy and lipid metabolism. Recent evidence from human intervention trials shows that also less pungent capsaicin analogs, like nonivamide, may help to reduce total body fat, although mechanistic data comparing the effects of capsaicin and nonivamide on outcome measures of energy metabolism are lacking. Here, the tissue-specific effects of capsaicin and nonivamide on parameters of mitochondrial energy metabolism in 3T3-L1 and HepG2 cells are investigated. Lipid accumulation was reduced to a similar extent after treatment with both test substances during the maturation of 3T3-L1 cells by up to 6.91% for capsaicin and up to 4.89% for nonivamide (p < 0.01) at a concentration of 0.1 mu M or 1 mu M, respectively. Energy-producing pathways, as indicated by the reduced mitochondrial oxygen consumption and reduced glucose and fatty acid uptake, were diminished after incubation with both capsaicinoids at a concentration of 100 mu M. The results from HPLC analyses revealed a reduced cellular energy charge potential after a 4 h treatment with nonivamide. In HepG2 cells, similar effects were demonstrated: the glucose uptake was reduced by 18.7% and 25.8% (p < 0.05), after a 24 h incubation with 100 mu M capsaicin and nonivamide, respectively. In addition, the fatty acid uptake and oxygen consumption were decreased and the energy charge potential was diminished. These findings provide evidence that concentrations of capsaicin and nonivamide between 0.1 and 100 mu M modulate the mechanisms of cellular energy metabolism to a similar extent, independent of the investigated tissue.
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