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Duyun compound green tea extracts regulate bile acid metabolism on mice induced by high-fat diet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2022

Xiaolu Zhou
Affiliation:
College of Biological Sciences and Agriculture, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, People’s Republic of China School of Crop Production Technology, Institute of Agricultural Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
Yaling Li
Affiliation:
College of Biological Sciences and Agriculture, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, People’s Republic of China School of Tea and Food Technology, Anhui Agriculture University, Hefei 230036, People’s Republic of China
Ren Mu
Affiliation:
College of Biological Sciences and Agriculture, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, People’s Republic of China
Chuanming Wang
Affiliation:
School of Pharmacy, Qiannan Medical College for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, People’s Republic of China
Yuyan Song
Affiliation:
College of Biological Sciences and Agriculture, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, People’s Republic of China
Caibi Zhou*
Affiliation:
College of Biological Sciences and Agriculture, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, People’s Republic of China School of Crop Production Technology, Institute of Agricultural Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
Xin Mei*
Affiliation:
College of Biological Sciences and Agriculture, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, People’s Republic of China
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*Corresponding authors: Caibi Zhou, email teasky@foxmail.com; Xin Mei, email xmeisci@yeah.net
*Corresponding authors: Caibi Zhou, email teasky@foxmail.com; Xin Mei, email xmeisci@yeah.net
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Abstract

Duyun compound green tea (DCGT) is a healthy beverage with lipid-lowering effect commonly consumed by local people, but its mechanism is not very clear. We evaluated the effect of DCGT treatment on bile acids (BA) metabolism of mice with high-fat diet (HFD) – induced hyperlipidaemia by biochemical indexes and metabolomics and preliminarily determined the potential biomarkers and metabolic pathways of hyperlipidaemia mice treated with DCGT as well as investigated its lipid-lowering mechanism. The results showed that DCGT treatment could reduce HFD – induced gain in weight and improve dyslipidaemia. In addition, a total of ten types of BA were detected, of which seven changed BA metabolites were observed in HFD group mice. After DCGT treatment, glycocholic acid, tauroursodeoxycholic acid and taurochenodeoxycholic acid were significantly down-regulated, while hyodeoxycholic acid, deoxycholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid were markedly up-regulated. These results demonstrated that DCGT treatment was able to make the BA metabolites in the liver of hyperlipidaemia mice normal and alleviate hyperlipidaemia by regulating the metabolites such as glycocholic acid, tauroursodeoxycholic acid and taurochenodeoxycholic, as well as the BA metabolic pathway and cholesterol metabolic pathway involved.

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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Nutrition Society
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Table 1. Ultra performance liquid chromatography tandem ion trap time-of-flight MS (UPLC/ESI-IT-TOF/MS) elution gradient

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Fig. 1. Effects of DCGT intervention on (a) body weight and (b) serum biochemical indexes including TC, TAG, LDL-cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol levels in high-fat diet-induced hyperlipidaemia mice. All values present means ± sd for n 8, and one-way ANOVA followed by Duncan’s test was used to evaluate the statistical significance. The different lowercase letters represent significant differences among groups (P < 0·05). DCGT, Duyun compound green tea, TC, total cholesterol.

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Fig. 2. Principal component analysis (PCA) score plots in mass spectrum data from the four groups and QC samples. The X, Y and Z axes represent the first principal component (PC1), the second principal component (PC2) and the third principal component (PC3), respectively.

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Fig. 3. Orthogonal partial least squares - discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) score plots of data from (a) CK group v. NK group, (b) NK group v. DH group, (c) NK group v. YK group and (d) CK group v. DH group. The abscissa of OPLS-DA represents the accuracy of the model, and the ordinate is the frequency of model classification effect. CK, normal control group; DH, compound green tea treatment group; NK, model control group; YK, positive control group.

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Fig. 4. Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) of the metabolites from different group. Each metabolite content is standardised to accomplish linkage hierarchical clustering. Each example is visualised in a single column, and each metabolite is manifested by a single row. Red represents high abundance, while low relative metabolites are displayed in green.

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Table 2. Metabolites with significant changes were identified by LC-MS in mice liver induced by high-fat diet

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Fig. 5. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes enrichment pathway of differentially expressed metabolites in (a) CK group v. DH group, (b) CK group v. NK group, (c) CK group v. YK group, (d) NK group v. DH group, (e) NK group v. YK group and (f) YK group v. DH group. Rich factor represents the ratio of the number of differentially expressed metabolites in the corresponding pathway to the total number of metabolites detected and annotated in the pathway. The colour of the dots represents p-value, and the redder indicates the more significant the enrichment. The size of the dots represents the number of differentially expressed metabolites enriched. CK, normal control group; DH, compound green tea treatment group; NK, model control group; YK, positive control group.