¹H NMR-Based Metabonomic Investigation of the Effect of Two Different Exercise Sessions on the Metabolic Fingerprint of Human Urine

Abstract

Physical exercise modifies animal metabolism profoundly. Until recently, biochemical investigations related to exercise focused on a small number of biomolecules. In the present study, we used a holistic analytical approach to investigate changes in the human urine metabolome elicited by two exercise sessions differing in the duration of the rest interval between repeated efforts. Twelve men performed three sets of two 80 m maximal runs separated by either 10 s or 1 min of rest. Analysis of pre- and postexercise urine samples by (1)H NMR spectroscopy and subsequent multivariate statistical analysis revealed alterations in the levels of 22 metabolites. Urine samples were safely classified according to exercise protocol even when applying unsupervised methods of statistical analysis. Separation of pre- from postexercise samples was mainly due to lactate, pyruvate, hypoxanthine, compounds of the Krebs cycle, amino acids, and products of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) catabolism. Separation of the two rest intervals was mainly due to lactate, pyruvate, alanine, compounds of the Krebs cycle, and 2-oxoacids of BCAA, all of which increased more with the shorter interval. Metabonomics provides a powerful methodology to gain insight in metabolic changes induced by specific training protocols and may thus advance our knowledge of exercise biochemistry.

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