skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Pathway discovery and engineering for cleavage of a β-1 lignin-derived biaryl compound

Journal Article · · Metabolic Engineering

Lignin biosynthesis typically results in a polymer with several inter-monomer bond linkages, and the heterogeneity of linkages presents a challenge for depolymerization processes. While several enzyme classes have been shown to cleave common dimer linkages in lignin, the pathway of bacterial ß-1 spirodienone linkage cleavage has not been elucidated. Here, we identified a pathway for cleavage of 1,2-diguaiacylpropane-1,3-diol (DGPD), a ß-1 linked biaryl representative of a ring-opened spirodienone linkage, in Novosphingobium aromaticivorans DSM12444. In vitro assays using cell lysates demonstrated that RS14230 (LsdE) converts DGPD to a lignostilbene intermediate, which the carotenoid oxygenase, LsdA, then converts to vanillin. A Pseudomonas putida KT2440 strain engineered with lsdEA expression catabolizes erythro-DGPD, but not threo-DGPD. We further engineered P. putida to convert DGPD to a product, cis,cis-muconic acid. Overall, this work demonstrates the potential to identify new enzymatic reactions in N. aromaticivorans and expands the biological funnel of P. putida for microbial lignin valorization.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab. (EMSL); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Sustainable Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1771901
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1772445; OSTI ID: 1815315
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-2A00-78148
Journal Information:
Metabolic Engineering, Vol. 65; ISSN 1096-7176
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (66)

Differences in S/G ratio in natural poplar variants do not predict catalytic depolymerization monomer yields journal May 2019
Structural and Biochemical Characterization of the Early and Late Enzymes in the Lignin β-Aryl Ether Cleavage Pathway from Sphingobium sp. SYK-6 journal March 2016
Lignin Biosynthesis journal June 2003
Aromatic catabolic pathway selection for optimal production of pyruvate and lactate from lignin journal March 2015
Advances in microbial lignin degradation and its applications journal April 2019
Identification of Bacterial Carotenoid Cleavage Dioxygenase Homologues That Cleave the Interphenyl α,β Double Bond of Stilbene Derivatives via a Monooxygenase Reaction journal June 2008
Glucose-Free cis , cis -Muconic Acid Production via New Metabolic Designs Corresponding to the Heterogeneity of Lignin journal November 2017
Rapid, Parallel Identification of Catabolism Pathways of Lignin-Derived Aromatic Compounds in Novosphingobium aromaticivorans journal September 2018
Construction and Optimization of a Heterologous Pathway for Protocatechuate Catabolism in Escherichia coli Enables Bioconversion of Model Aromatic Compounds journal July 2017
Phylogenetic and Kinetic Characterization of a Suite of Dehydrogenases from a Newly Isolated Bacterium, Strain SG61-1L, That Catalyze the Turnover of Guaiacylglycerol-β-Guaiacyl Ether Stereoisomers journal September 2015
Lignin structure and its engineering journal April 2019
Enzymatic conversion of lignin into renewable chemicals journal December 2015
Exploiting the Dynamic Relationship between Peptide Separation Quality and Peptide Coisolation in a Multiple-Peptide Matches-per-Spectrum Approach Offers a Strategy To Optimize Bottom-Up Proteomics Throughput and Depth journal May 2019
Reductive lignocellulose fractionation into soluble lignin-derived phenolic monomers and dimers and processable carbohydrate pulps journal January 2015
Biochemical transformation of lignin for deriving valued commodities from lignocellulose journal June 2017
Biological valorization of low molecular weight lignin journal December 2016
Identification of functionally important residues and structural features in a bacterial lignostilbene dioxygenase journal July 2019
Skyline: an open source document editor for creating and analyzing targeted proteomics experiments journal February 2010
Development of an Optimized Medium, Strain and High-Throughput Culturing Methods for Methylobacterium extorquens journal April 2013
An extracellular H2O2-requiring enzyme preparation involved in lignin biodegradation by the white rot basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium journal August 1983
Outer membrane vesicles catabolize lignin-derived aromatic compounds in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 journal April 2020
Production of Heterogeneous Dimer Lignostilbenedioxygenase II from lsdA and lsdB in Escherichia coli Cells journal January 2005
Novosphingobium aromaticivorans uses a Nu-class glutathione S -transferase as a glutathione lyase in breaking the β-aryl ether bond of lignin journal February 2018
Identification of Three Alcohol Dehydrogenase Genes Involved in the Stereospecific Catabolism of Arylglycerol- -Aryl Ether by Sphingobium sp. Strain SYK-6 journal June 2009
Mechanism of oxidative C alpha-C beta cleavage of a lignin model dimer by Phanerochaete chrysosporium ligninase. Stoichiometry and involvement of free radicals. journal July 1985
OPTIMIZER: a web server for optimizing the codon usage of DNA sequences journal May 2007
Cloning, Expression, and Sequence Analysis of a Lignostilbene- α,β -dioxygenase Gene from Pseudomonas paucimobilis TMY1009 journal January 1993
Biotechnological domestication of pseudomonads using synthetic biology journal April 2014
Rapid Quantification of Mutant Fitness in Diverse Bacteria by Sequencing Randomly Bar-Coded Transposons journal May 2015
Lignin-degrading enzymes journal February 2015
DanteR: an extensible R-based tool for quantitative analysis of -omics data journal July 2012
Lignin valorization through integrated biological funneling and chemical catalysis journal August 2014
Selective Copper–N-Heterocyclic Carbene (Copper-NHC)-Catalyzed Aerobic Cleavage of β-1 Lignin Models to Aldehydes journal April 2017
Selective Cleavage of Lignin β- O -4 Aryl Ether Bond by β-Etherase of the White-Rot Fungus Dichomitus squalens journal January 2018
Eliminating a global regulator of carbon catabolite repression enhances the conversion of aromatic lignin monomers to muconate in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 journal December 2017
Bioprocess development for muconic acid production from aromatic compounds and lignin journal January 2018
Production of Diethyl Terephthalate from Biomass-Derived Muconic Acid journal November 2015
Biotechnological production of muconic acid: current status and future prospects journal May 2014
Innovative Chemicals and Materials from Bacterial Aromatic Catabolic Pathways journal June 2019
Lignin Valorization: Improving Lignin Processing in the Biorefinery journal May 2014
Aromatic-degrading Sphingomonas isolates from the deep subsurface. journal January 1995
Microbial degradation of aromatic compounds — from one strategy to four journal October 2011
Pathways for degradation of lignin in bacteria and fungi journal January 2011
The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes journal June 2012
Bioprivileged molecules: creating value from biomass journal January 2017
CharmeRT: Boosting Peptide Identifications by Chimeric Spectra Identification and Retention Time Prediction journal June 2018
Automated design of synthetic ribosome binding sites to control protein expression journal October 2009
Renewable Unsaturated Polyesters from Muconic Acid journal October 2016
Opportunities and challenges in biological lignin valorization journal December 2016
The Catalytic Valorization of Lignin for the Production of Renewable Chemicals journal June 2010
Adipic acid production from lignin journal January 2015
Filling out the structural map of the NTF2-like superfamily journal November 2013
Isolation and Characterization of a Subsurface Bacterium Capable of Growth on Toluene, Naphthalene, and Other Aromatic Compounds journal January 1991
The Perseus computational platform for comprehensive analysis of (prote)omics data journal June 2016
Passive membrane transport of lignin-related compounds journal October 2019
From gene to biorefinery: microbial β-etherases as promising biocatalysts for lignin valorization journal September 2015
Bacterial enzymes for lignin depolymerisation: new biocatalysts for generation of renewable chemicals from biomass journal April 2020
Bacterial catabolism of lignin-derived aromatics: New findings in a recent decade: Update on bacterial lignin catabolism: Bacterial catabolism of lignin-derived aromatics journal November 2017
Enhancing muconic acid production from glucose and lignin-derived aromatic compounds via increased protocatechuate decarboxylase activity journal December 2016
Structure and mechanism of NOV1, a resveratrol-cleaving dioxygenase journal November 2016
DdvK, a Novel Major Facilitator Superfamily Transporter Essential for 5,5′-Dehydrodivanillate Uptake by Sphingobium sp. Strain SYK-6 journal August 2018
Paving the Way for Lignin Valorisation: Recent Advances in Bioengineering, Biorefining and Catalysis journal June 2016
Purification and Some Properties of Lignostilbene- α,β -dioxygenase Isozyme IV from Pseudomonas paucimobilis TMY1009 journal January 1997
A field of dreams: Lignin valorization into chemicals, materials, fuels, and health-care products journal November 2019
Lignin degradation: microorganisms, enzymes involved, genomes analysis and evolution journal October 2017
From lignin to nylon: Cascaded chemical and biochemical conversion using metabolically engineered Pseudomonas putida journal May 2018

Similar Records

Biochemical and structural characterization of a sphingomonad diarylpropane lyase for cofactorless deformylation
Journal Article · Wed Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2023 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · OSTI ID:1771901

Engineering Novosphingobium aromaticivorans to produce cis,cis -muconic acid from biomass aromatics
Journal Article · Wed Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2024 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · OSTI ID:1771901

Stereoinversion via Alcohol Dehydrogenases Enables Complete Catabolism of β-1-Type Lignin-Derived Aromatic Isomers
Journal Article · Mon May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · OSTI ID:1771901