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Integrated downstream regulation by the quorum-sensing controlled transcription factors LrhA and RcsA impacts phenotypic outputs associated with virulence in the phytopathogen Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii .
PeerJ 2017
Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii is a Gram-negative proteobacterium that causes leaf blight and Stewart's wilt disease in corn. Quorum sensing (QS) controls bacterial exopolysaccharide production that blocks water transport in the plant xylem at high bacterial densities during the later stage of the infection, resulting in wilt. At low cell density the key master QS regulator in P. stewartii , EsaR, directly represses rcsA , encoding an activator of capsule biosynthesis genes, but activates lrhA , encoding a transcription factor that regulates surface motility. Both RcsA and LrhA have been shown to play a role in plant virulence. In this study, additional information about the downstream targets of LrhA and its interaction with RcsA was determined. A transcriptional fusion assay revealed autorepression of LrhA in P. stewartii and electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) using purified LrhA confirmed that LrhA binds to its own promoter. In addition, LrhA binds to the promoter for the RcsA gene, as well as those for putative fimbrial subunits and biosurfactant production enzymes in P. stewartii, but not to the flhDC promoter, which is the main direct target of LrhA in Escherichia coli. This work led to a reexamination of the physiological function of RcsA in P. stewartii and the discovery that it also plays a role in surface motility. These findings are broadening our understanding of the coordinated regulatory cascades utilized in the phytopathogen P. stewartii .
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