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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2023

A Stenotrophomonas maltophilia TetR-Like Transcriptional Regulator Involved in Fatty Acid Metabolism Is Controlled by Quorum Sensing Signals.

Xavier Coves, Marc Bravo, Pol Huedo, Òscar Conchillo-Solé, Andromeda-Celeste Gómez, Anna Esteve-Codina, Marc Dabad, Marta Gut, Xavier Daura, Daniel Yero and 1 more

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Xavier Coves *Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
Marc Bravo *Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
Pol Huedo *Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
Òscar Conchillo-SoléInstitut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
Andromeda-Celeste GómezInstitut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
Anna Esteve-CodinaCNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
Marc DabadCNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
Marta GutCNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
Xavier DauraInstitut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
Daniel YeroInstitut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6234-4082
Isidre GibertInstitut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1442-2258
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESCentre for Genomic Regulation · ESInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · ESUniversitat Pompeu Fabra · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an environmental bacterium as well as an emerging opportunistic multidrug-resistant pathogen. They use the endogenous diffusible signal factor (DSF) quorum sensing (QS) system to coordinate population behavior and regulate virulence processes but can also respond to exogenous N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) signals produced by neighboring bacteria. The effect of these QS signals on the global gene expression of this species remains, however, unknown. Whole-transcriptome sequencing analyses were performed for exponential cultures of S. maltophilia K279a treated with exogenous DSF or AHLs. Addition of DSF and AHLs signals resulted in changes in expression of at least 2-fold for 28 and 82 genes, respectively. Interestingly, 22 of these genes were found upregulated by both QS signals, 14 of which were shown to also be induced during the stationary phase. Gene functions regulated by all conditions included lipid and amino acid metabolism, stress response and signal transduction, nitrogen and iron metabolism, and adaptation to microoxic conditions. Among the common top upregulated QS core genes, a putative TetR-like regulator (locus tag SMLT2053) was selected for functional characterization. This regulator controls its own β-oxidation operon (

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Quorum SensingStenotrophomonas maltophiliaAcyl-ButyrolactonesBiofilmsFatty AcidsVirulenceAcyl-ButyrolactonesFatty AcidsDSFfatty acid metabolismN-acyl homoserine lactonesquorum sensingStenotrophomonasTetR-like regulator

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