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Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains two transcription regulators (LasR and RhlR) that, when complexed with their specific autoinducers (3-oxo-dodecanoyl-homoserine lactone and butanoyl-homoserine lactone, respectively) activate transcription of different virulence-associated traits. We studied the RhlR-dependent transcriptional regulation of the rhlAB operon encoding rhamnosyltransferase 1, an enzyme involved in the synthesis of the surfactant monorhamnolipid, and showed that RhlR binds to a specific sequence in the rhlAB regulatory region, both in the presence and in the absence of its autoinducer. Our data suggest that in the former case it activates transcription, whereas in the latter it acts as a transcriptional repressor of this promoter. RhlR seems to repress the transcription of other quorum-sensing-regulated genes; thus, RhlR repressor activity might be of importance in the finely regulated expression of P. aeruginosa virulence-associated traits.
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PMID:Mechanism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa RhlR transcriptional regulation of the rhlAB promoter. 1452 8

Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenic potential is controlled via multiple regulatory pathways, including three quorum sensing (QS) systems. LasR is a key QS signal receptor since it acts as a global transcriptional regulator required for optimal expression of main virulence factors. P. aeruginosa modulates the QS response by integrating this cell density-dependent circuit to environmental and metabolic cues. Hence, QS also controls the adaptation to challenging environmental niches, such as infection sites. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms connecting QS and other signalling pathways. In this work, DNA-affinity chromatography was used to identify new lasR transcriptional regulators. This approach led to the identification and functional characterization of the TetR-like transcriptional repressor PA3699. This protein was purified and shown to directly bind to the lasR promoter region in vitro. The induction of PA3699 expression in P. aeruginosa PAO1 cultures repressed lasR promoter activity and the production of LasR-dependent virulence factors, such as elastase, pyocyanin, and proteases. These findings suggest a role for PA3699 in P. aeruginosa pathogenicity. P. aeruginosa genome encodes at least 38 TetR-family proteins, and PA3699 is the eighth member of this group functionally characterized so far and the first one shown to bind the lasR promoter in vitro.
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PMID:A new transcriptional repressor of the pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing receptor gene lasR. 2386 75

Quorum sensing (QS) is an intercellular communication system which controls virulence-related phenotypes in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. LasR is the QS receptor protein which responds to the signal molecule N-(3-oxododecanoyl)homoserine lactone (3OC12-HSL) and promotes signal production by increasing the transcription of the 3OC12-HSL synthase gene, lasI. LasR also activates the expression of other genes, including rsaL, coding for the RsaL protein which acts as a transcriptional repressor of lasI. Direct gene activation and RsaL-mediated gene repression, both exerted by LasR on the expression of the output gene lasI, generate a regulatory network motif known as the type 1 incoherent feedforward loop (IFFL-1) that governs 3OC12-HSL production. In addition to lasI, RsaL directly represses a set of LasR-activated genes; hence, the IFFL-1 generated by LasR and RsaL is a multi-output IFFL-1. Here we demonstrate that the multi-output IFFL-1 constituted by LasR and RsaL confers robustness with respect to fluctuations in the levels of LasR to the phenotypes controlled by both these transcriptional regulators (e.g. 3OC12-HSL synthesis and pyocyanin production). In contrast, other virulence-related phenotypes controlled by LasR but not by RsaL (e.g. elastase and protease production) are sensitive to changes in LasR levels. Overall, the multi-output IFFL-1 generated by LasR and RsaL splits the QS regulon into two distinct sub-regulons with different robustness with respect to LasR fluctuations. This emerging regulatory property enhances the phenotypic plasticity of P. aeruginosa, thus contributing to its adaptation to changing environments.
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PMID:The multi-output incoherent feedforward loop constituted by the transcriptional regulators LasR and RsaL confers robustness to a subset of quorum sensing genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 2846 92