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ACS Chem Biol ; 8(10): 2151-6, 2013 Oct 18.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23898824

ABSTRACT

The aromatic polymer lignin represents a possible renewable source of aromatic chemicals, if biocatalytic routes for lignin breakdown can be developed. The availability of a genome sequence for Rhodococcus jostii RHA1, a bacterium that breaks down lignin, has allowed the application of a targeted pathway engineering strategy to lignin breakdown to produce vanillin, a valuable food/flavor chemical. A gene deletion strain of R. jostii RHA1 in which the vanillin dehydrogenase gene had been deleted, when grown on minimal medium containing 2.5% wheat straw lignocellulose and 0.05% glucose, was found to accumulate vanillin with yields of up to 96 mg/L after 144 h, together with smaller amounts of ferulic acid and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde.


Subject(s)
Benzaldehydes/chemistry , Lignin/chemistry , Rhodococcus/genetics , Lignin/metabolism , Molecular Structure , Sequence Deletion/genetics
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Nat Prod Rep ; 28(12): 1883-96, 2011 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21918777

ABSTRACT

Lignin is a heterogeneous aromatic polymer found as 10-35% of lignocellulose, found in plant cell walls. The bio-conversion of plant lignocellulose to glucose is an important part of second generation biofuel production, but the resistance of lignin to breakdown is a major obstacle in this process, hence there is considerable interest in the microbial breakdown of lignin. White-rot fungi are known to break down lignin with the aid of extracellular peroxidase and laccase enzymes. There are also reports of bacteria that can degrade lignin, and recent work indicates that bacterial lignin breakdown may be more significant than previously thought. The review will discuss the enzymes for lignin breakdown in fungi and bacteria, and the catabolic pathways for breakdown of the ß-aryl ether, biphenyl and other components of lignin in bacteria and fungi. The review will also discuss small molecule phenolic breakdown products from lignin that have been identified from lignin-degrading microbes, and includes a bioinformatic analysis of the occurrence of known lignin-degradation pathways in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.


Subject(s)
Bacteria , Fungi , Lignin/metabolism , Bacteria/enzymology , Bacteria/metabolism , Fungi/enzymology , Fungi/metabolism , Molecular Structure
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Biochemistry ; 50(23): 5096-107, 2011 Jun 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21534568

ABSTRACT

Rhodococcus jostii RHA1, a polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading soil bacterium whose genome has been sequenced, shows lignin degrading activity in two recently developed spectrophotometric assays. Bioinformatic analysis reveals two unannotated peroxidase genes present in the genome of R. jostii RHA1 with sequence similarity to open reading frames in other lignin-degrading microbes. They are members of the Dyp peroxidase family and were annotated as DypA and DypB, on the basis of bioinformatic analysis. Assay of gene deletion mutants using a colorimetric lignin degradation assay reveals that a ΔdypB mutant shows greatly reduced lignin degradation activity, consistent with a role in lignin breakdown. Recombinant DypB protein shows activity in the colorimetric assay and shows Michaelis-Menten kinetic behavior using Kraft lignin as a substrate. DypB is activated by Mn(2+) by 5-23-fold using a range of assay substrates, and breakdown of wheat straw lignocellulose by recombinant DypB is observed over 24-48 h in the presence of 1 mM MnCl(2). Incubation of recombinant DypB with a ß-aryl ether lignin model compound shows time-dependent turnover, giving vanillin as a product, indicating that C(α)-C(ß) bond cleavage has taken place. This reaction is inhibited by addition of diaphorase, consistent with a radical mechanism for C-C bond cleavage. Stopped-flow kinetic analysis of the DypB-catalyzed reaction shows reaction between the intermediate compound I (397 nm) and either Mn(II) (k(obs) = 2.35 s(-1)) or the ß-aryl ether (k(obs) = 3.10 s(-1)), in the latter case also showing a transient at 417 nm, consistent with a compound II intermediate. These results indicate that DypB has a significant role in lignin degradation in R. jostii RHA1, is able to oxidize both polymeric lignin and a lignin model compound, and appears to have both Mn(II) and lignin oxidation sites. This is the first detailed characterization of a recombinant bacterial lignin peroxidase.


Subject(s)
Bacterial Proteins/chemistry , Peroxidases/chemistry , Rhodococcus/enzymology , Bacterial Proteins/metabolism , Kinetics , Lignin/metabolism , Mutation , Operon , Oxidation-Reduction , Peroxidases/genetics , Peroxidases/metabolism , Phylogeny , Rhodococcus/metabolism
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Curr Opin Biotechnol ; 22(3): 394-400, 2011 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21071202

ABSTRACT

The microbial degradation of lignin has been well studied in white-rot and brown-rot fungi, but is much less well studied in bacteria. Recent published work suggests that a range of soil bacteria, often aromatic-degrading bacteria, are able to break down lignin. The enzymology of bacterial lignin breakdown is currently not well understood, but extracellular peroxidase and laccase enzymes appear to be involved. There are also reports of aromatic-degrading bacteria isolated from termite guts, though there are conflicting reports on the ability of termite gut micro-organisms to break down lignin. If biocatalytic routes for lignin breakdown could be developed, then lignin represents a potentially rich source of renewable aromatic chemicals.


Subject(s)
Bacteria/metabolism , Lignin/metabolism , Animals , Bacteria/classification , Bacteria/isolation & purification , Biocatalysis , Fungi/metabolism , Isoptera/microbiology , Laccase/metabolism , Oxidoreductases/metabolism , Peroxidases/metabolism
5.
Mol Biosyst ; 6(5): 815-21, 2010 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20567767

ABSTRACT

Two spectrophotometric assays have been developed to monitor breakdown of the lignin component of plant lignocellulose: a continuous fluorescent assay involving fluorescently modified lignin, and a UV-vis assay involving chemically nitrated lignin. These assays have been used to analyse lignin degradation activity in bacterial and fungal lignin degraders, and to identify additional soil bacteria that show activity for lignin degradation. Two soil bacteria known to act as aromatic degraders, Pseudomonas putida and Rhodococcus sp. RHA1, consistently showed activity in these assays, and these strains were shown in a small scale experiment to breakdown lignocellulose, producing a number of monocyclic phenolic products. Using milled wood lignin prepared from wheat straw, pine, and miscanthus, some bacterial lignin degraders were found to show specificity for lignin type. These assays could be used to identify novel lignin degraders for breakdown of plant lignocellulose.


Subject(s)
Bacteria/metabolism , Biological Assay/methods , Fungi/metabolism , Lignin/metabolism , Lignin/chemistry , Molecular Structure , Pseudomonas putida/metabolism , Rhodococcus/metabolism
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Org Biomol Chem ; 7(7): 1368-73, 2009 Apr 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19300822

ABSTRACT

The extradiol and intradiol catechol dioxygenase reaction mechanisms proceed via a common proximal hydroperoxide intermediate, which is processed via different Criegee 1,2-rearrangements. An R215W mutant of extradiol dioxygenase MhpB, able to produce a mixture of extradiol and intradiol cleavage products, was analysed at pH 5.2-8.6, and the yield of extradiol product was found to be highly pH-dependent, whereas the yield of intradiol product was pH-independent. The acid-base chemistry of a biomimetic reaction for extradiol oxidative catechol cleavage was also investigated, using 1,4,7-triazacyclononane, FeCl(2), and pyridine in methanol, in which pyridine is proposed to act as both a general base and (in protonated form) a general acid. Kinetic experiments using a range of meta- and para-substituted pyridines gave a Brønsted plot of log(v) vs. pK(a) showing a bell-shaped plot. Oxidative catechol cleavage by a pyridine-monosubstituted beta-cyclodextrin in the presence of TACN and FeCl(2) in methanol yielded only intradiol cleavage products. It is therefore proposed that bifunctional acid-base catalysis is required for iron (ii)-dependent extradiol catechol cleavage, whereas the rate-determining step for intradiol catechol cleavage does not involve acid-base catalysis.


Subject(s)
Catechol 1,2-Dioxygenase/metabolism , Computer Simulation , Models, Chemical , Pyridines/chemistry , Catalysis , Catechol 1,2-Dioxygenase/genetics , Catechols/chemical synthesis , Catechols/chemistry , Ferrous Compounds/chemistry , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Kinetics , Molecular Structure , Mutation
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