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Title: Response of Pseudomonas putida to Complex, Aromatic-Rich Fractions from Biomass

Abstract

There is strong interest in the valorization of lignin to produce valuable products; however, its structural complexity has been a conversion bottleneck. Chemical pretreatment liberates lignin-derived soluble fractions that may be upgraded by bioconversion. Here, cholinium ionic liquid pretreatment of sorghum produced soluble, aromatic-rich fractions that were converted by Pseudomonas putida (P. putida), a promising host for aromatic bioconversion. Growth studies and mutational analysis demonstrated that P. putida growth on these fractions was dependent on aromatic monomers but unknown factors also contributed. Proteomic and metabolomic analyses indicated that these unknown factors were amino acids and residual ionic liquid; the oligomeric aromatic fraction derived from lignin was not converted. A cholinium catabolic pathway was identified, and the deletion of the pathway stopped the ability of P. putida to grow on cholinium ionic liquid. This work demonstrates that aromatic-rich fractions obtained through pretreatment contain multiple substrates; conversion strategies should account for this complexity.

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 [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint BioEnergy Inst. and Biological Systems and Engineering Division
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint BioEnergy Inst.
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint BioEnergy Institute and Biological Systems and Engineering Division
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint BioEnergy Inst.; Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States). Biomass Science and Conversion Technology
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint BioEnergy Inst. and Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Bioengineering
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint BioEnergy Inst. and Biological Systems and Engineering Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Bioengineering and Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,; Danish Technical Univ.,Lyngby (Denmark). Center for Biosustainability; Shenzhen Inst. for Advanced Technology (China). Inst. for Synthetic Biology, Center for Synthetic Biochemistry
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1633268
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1616632
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ChemSusChem
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 13; Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 1864-5631
Publisher:
ChemPubSoc Europe
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 09 BIOMASS FUELS; biomass; biotransformations; enzymes; ionic liquids; proteomics; base-catalyzed depolymerization; lignin-derived aromatic monomer; lignin valorization

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Park, Mee‐Rye, Chen, Yan, Thompson, Mitchell, Benites, Veronica T., Fong, Bonnie, Petzold, Christopher J., Baidoo, Edward E. K., Gladden, John M., Adams, Paul D., Keasling, Jay D., Simmons, Blake A., and Singer, Steven W. Response of Pseudomonas putida to Complex, Aromatic-Rich Fractions from Biomass. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1002/cssc.202000268.
Park, Mee‐Rye, Chen, Yan, Thompson, Mitchell, Benites, Veronica T., Fong, Bonnie, Petzold, Christopher J., Baidoo, Edward E. K., Gladden, John M., Adams, Paul D., Keasling, Jay D., Simmons, Blake A., & Singer, Steven W. Response of Pseudomonas putida to Complex, Aromatic-Rich Fractions from Biomass. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202000268
Park, Mee‐Rye, Chen, Yan, Thompson, Mitchell, Benites, Veronica T., Fong, Bonnie, Petzold, Christopher J., Baidoo, Edward E. K., Gladden, John M., Adams, Paul D., Keasling, Jay D., Simmons, Blake A., and Singer, Steven W. Wed . "Response of Pseudomonas putida to Complex, Aromatic-Rich Fractions from Biomass". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202000268. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1633268.
@article{osti_1633268,
title = {Response of Pseudomonas putida to Complex, Aromatic-Rich Fractions from Biomass},
author = {Park, Mee‐Rye and Chen, Yan and Thompson, Mitchell and Benites, Veronica T. and Fong, Bonnie and Petzold, Christopher J. and Baidoo, Edward E. K. and Gladden, John M. and Adams, Paul D. and Keasling, Jay D. and Simmons, Blake A. and Singer, Steven W.},
abstractNote = {There is strong interest in the valorization of lignin to produce valuable products; however, its structural complexity has been a conversion bottleneck. Chemical pretreatment liberates lignin-derived soluble fractions that may be upgraded by bioconversion. Here, cholinium ionic liquid pretreatment of sorghum produced soluble, aromatic-rich fractions that were converted by Pseudomonas putida (P. putida), a promising host for aromatic bioconversion. Growth studies and mutational analysis demonstrated that P. putida growth on these fractions was dependent on aromatic monomers but unknown factors also contributed. Proteomic and metabolomic analyses indicated that these unknown factors were amino acids and residual ionic liquid; the oligomeric aromatic fraction derived from lignin was not converted. A cholinium catabolic pathway was identified, and the deletion of the pathway stopped the ability of P. putida to grow on cholinium ionic liquid. This work demonstrates that aromatic-rich fractions obtained through pretreatment contain multiple substrates; conversion strategies should account for this complexity.},
doi = {10.1002/cssc.202000268},
journal = {ChemSusChem},
number = 17,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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