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The structural basis for high-affinity uptake of lignin-derived aromatic compounds by proteobacterial TRAP transporters

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FEBS JOURNAL
卷 289, 期 2, 页码 436-456

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/febs.16156

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Chromohalobacter salexigens; hydroxycinnamate; Rhodopseudomonas palustris; Sagittula stellata; tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic transporter

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  1. UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F016832/1]

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Lignin, an organic polymer found in plant cell walls, is abundant in nature and resistant to degradation, but can be cleaved by enzymes released by microbial consortia. The degradation of lignin is important in global carbon cycling and has potential for industrial biotechnological applications. The high-resolution crystal structures of proteins involved in the recognition and uptake of phenylpropanoids shed light on the molecular basis for their high-affinity binding by transporters, offering insights into potential improvements in lignin biotechnological transformations.
The organic polymer lignin is a component of plant cell walls, which like (hemi)-cellulose is highly abundant in nature and relatively resistant to degradation. However, extracellular enzymes released by natural microbial consortia can cleave the beta-aryl ether linkages in lignin, releasing monoaromatic phenylpropanoids that can be further catabolised by diverse species of bacteria. Biodegradation of lignin is therefore important in global carbon cycling, and its natural abundance also makes it an attractive biotechnological feedstock for the industrial production of commodity chemicals. Whilst the pathways for degradation of lignin-derived aromatics have been extensively characterised, much less is understood about how they are recognised and taken up from the environment. The purple phototrophic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris can grow on a range of phenylpropanoid monomers and is a model organism for studying their uptake and breakdown. R. palustris encodes a tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporter (TarPQM) linked to genes encoding phenylpropanoid-degrading enzymes. The periplasmic solute-binding protein component of this transporter, TarP, has previously been shown to bind aromatic substrates. Here, we determine the high-resolution crystal structure of TarP from R. palustris as well as the structures of homologous proteins from the salt marsh bacterium Sagittula stellata and the halophile Chromohalobacter salexigens, which also grow on lignin-derived aromatics. In combination with tryptophan fluorescence ligand-binding assays, our ligand-bound co-crystal structures reveal the molecular basis for high-affinity recognition of phenylpropanoids by these TRAP transporters, which have potential for improving uptake of these compounds for biotechnological transformations of lignin.

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