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ArticleCommunications biology2025

Quantitative decoding of coupled carbon and energy metabolism in Pseudomonas putida for lignin carbon utilization.

Nanqing Zhou, Rebecca A Wilkes, Xinyu Chen, Kelly P Teitel, James A Belgrave, Gregg T Beckham, Allison Z Werner, Yanbao Yu, Ludmilla Aristilde

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase homologs as bifunctional gatekeepers of metabolic segregation inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. High enzyme promiscuity in lignin degradation mechanisms inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
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9 authors.

Nanqing ZhouDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Rebecca A WilkesRenewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.
Xinyu ChenDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Kelly P TeitelDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
James A BelgraveNorthwestern Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Gregg T BeckhamRenewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3480-212X
Allison Z WernerRenewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.
Yanbao YuDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Ludmilla AristildeDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. ludmilla.aristilde@northwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8566-1486

Funding

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC36-08GO28308U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0022181
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil Pseudomonas species, which thrive on lignin derivatives, are widely explored for biotechnology applications in lignin valorization. However, how the native metabolism coordinates phenolic carbon processing with required cofactor generation remains poorly understood. Here, we achieve quantitative understanding of this metabolic balance through a detailed multi-omics investigation of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 grown on four common phenolic acid substrates: ferulate, p-coumarate, vanillate, and 4-hydroxybenzoate. Relative to succinate, proteomics reveals > 140-fold increase in transport and catabolic proteins for aromatics, but metabolomics identifies bottlenecks in initial catabolism to maintain favorable cellular energy charge, which is compromised in mutants with resolved bottlenecks. Up to 30-fold increase in pyruvate carboxylase and glyoxylate shunt proteins implies a metabolic remodeling confirmed by kinetic

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CarbonEnergy MetabolismLigninPseudomonas putidaBacterial ProteinsCitric Acid CycleMetabolomicsBacterial ProteinsCarbonLignin

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PMID40883435
PMCPMC12397404

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