ArticleMicrobiology (Reading, England)2011
The phosphotransferase VanU represses expression of four qrr genes antagonizing VanO-mediated quorum-sensing regulation in Vibrio anguillarum.
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- Regulation of biofilm formation by non-coding RNA in prokaryotes.Current research in pharmacology and drug discovery · 2023Review
- Regulatory Small RNA Qrr2 Is Expressed Independently of Sigma Factor-54 and Can Function as the Sole Qrr Small RNA To Control Quorum Sensing in Vibrio parahaemolyticus.Journal of bacteriology · 2022Article
- Diversification ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Small RNA-Based Regulation of Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation.Microbiology spectrum · 2018Review
- Quorum Sensing Determines the Choice of Antiphage Defense Strategy in Vibrio anguillarum.mBio · 2015Article
- The putative oligosaccharide translocase SypK connects biofilm formation with quorum signaling in Vibrio fischeri.MicrobiologyOpen · 2014Article
- Chemical shift assignments and secondary structure prediction of the phosphorelay protein VanU from Vibrio anguillarum.Biomolecular NMR assignments · 2014Article
- LuxU connects quorum sensing to biofilm formation in Vibrio fischeri.Molecular microbiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
Vibrio anguillarum utilizes quorum sensing to regulate stress responses required for survival in the aquatic environment. Like other Vibrio species, V. anguillarum contains the gene qrr1, which encodes the ancestral quorum regulatory RNA Qrr1, and phosphorelay quorum-sensing systems that modulate the expression of small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) that destabilize mRNA encoding the transcriptional regulator VanT. In this study, three additional Qrr sRNAs were identified. All four sRNAs were positively regulated by σ(54) and the σ(54)-dependent response regulator VanO, and showed a redundant activity. The Qrr sRNAs, together with the RNA chaperone Hfq, destabilized vanT mRNA and modulated expression of VanT-regulated genes. Unexpectedly, expression of all four qrr genes peaked at high cell density, and exogenously added N-acylhomoserine lactone molecules induced expression of the qrr genes at low cell density. The phosphotransferase VanU, which phosphorylates and activates VanO, repressed expression of the Qrr sRNAs and stabilized vanT mRNA. A model is presented proposing that VanU acts as a branch point, aiding cross-regulation between two independent phosphorelay systems that activate or repress expression of the Qrr sRNAs, giving flexibility and precision in modulating VanT expression and inducing a quorum-sensing response to stresses found in a constantly changing aquatic environment.
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