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    The gram-negative plant-pathogenic β-proteobacterium Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum strain OE1-1 produces methyl 3-hydroxymyristate as a quorum sensing (QS) signal via the methyltransferase PhcB and senses the chemical through the sensor histidine kinase PhcS. This leads to functionalization of the LysR family transcriptional regulator PhcA, regulating QS-dependent genes responsible for the QS-dependent phenotypes including virulence. The phc operon consists of phcB, phcS, phcR, and phcQ, with the latter two encoding regulator proteins with a receiver domain and a histidine kinase domain and with a receiver domain, respectively. To elucidate the function of PhcR and PhcQ in the regulation of QS-dependent genes, we generated phcR-deletion and phcQ-deletion mutants. Though the QS-dependent phenotypes of the phcR-deletion mutant were largely unchanged, deletion of phcQ led to a significant change in the QS-dependent phenotypes. Transcriptome analysis coupled with quantitative reverse transcription-PCR and RNA-sequencing revealed that phcB, phcK, and phcA in the phcR-deletion and phcQ-deletion mutants were expressed at similar levels as in strain OE1-1. Compared with strain OE1-1, expression of 22.9% and 26.4% of positively and negatively QS-dependent genes, respectively, was significantly altered in the phcR-deletion mutant. However, expression of 96.8% and 66.9% of positively and negatively QS-dependent genes, respectively, was significantly altered in the phcQ-deletion mutant. Furthermore, a strong positive correlation of expression of these QS-dependent genes was observed between the phcQ-deletion and phcA-deletion mutants. Our results indicate that PhcQ mainly contributes to the regulation of QS-dependent genes, in which PhcR is partially involved. © 2021 The Authors. Molecular Plant Pathology published by British Society for Plant Pathology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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    Chika Takemura, Wakana Senuma, Kazusa Hayashi, Ayaka Minami, Yuki Terazawa, Chisaki Kaneoka, Megumi Sakata, Min Chen, Yong Zhang, Tatsuya Nobori, Masanao Sato, Akinori Kiba, Kouhei Ohnishi, Kenichi Tsuda, Kenji Kai, Yasufumi Hikichi. PhcQ mainly contributes to the regulation of quorum sensing-dependent genes, in which PhcR is partially involved, in Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum strain OE1-1. Molecular plant pathology. 2021 Dec;22(12):1538-1552

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