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Lee, J, Maeda, T, Hong, SH and Wood, TK (2009) Reconfiguring the quorum-sensing regulator SdiA of Escherichia coli to control biofilm formation via indole and N-acylhomoserine lactones.Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:1703-16

Abstract

SdiA is a homolog of quorum-sensing regulators that detects N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) signals from other bacteria. Escherichia coli uses SdiA to reduce its biofilm formation in the presence of both AHLs and its own signal indole. Here we reconfigured SdiA (240 amino acids) to control biofilm formation using protein engineering. Four SdiA variants were obtained with altered biofilm formation, including truncation variants SdiA1E11 (F7L, F59L, Y70C, M94K, and K153X) and SdiA14C3 (W9R, P49T, N87T, frameshift at N96, and L123X), which reduced biofilm formation by 5- to 20-fold compared to wild-type SdiA in the presence of endogenous indole. Whole-transcriptome profiling revealed that wild-type SdiA reduced biofilm formation by repressing genes related to indole synthesis and curli synthesis compared to when no SdiA was expressed, while variant SdiA1E11 induced genes related to indole synthesis in comparison to wild-type SdiA. These results suggested altered indole metabolism, and corroborating the DNA microarray results in regard to indole synthesis, variant SdiA1E11 produced ninefold more indole, which led to reduced swimming motility and cell density. Also, wild-type SdiA decreased curli production and tnaA transcription, while SdiA1E11 increased tnaA transcription (tnaA encodes tryptophanase, which forms indole) compared to wild-type SdiA. Hence, wild-type SdiA decreased biofilm formation by reducing curli production and motility, and SdiA1E11 reduced biofilm formation via indole. Furthermore, an AHL-sensitive variant (SdiA2D10, having four mutations at E31G, Y42F, R116H, and L165Q) increased biofilm formation sevenfold in the presence of N-octanoyl-DL-homoserine lactone and N-(3-oxododecatanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone. Therefore, SdiA can be evolved to increase or decrease biofilm formation, and biofilm formation may be controlled by altering sensors rather than signals.

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PubMed Online version:10.1128/AEM.02081-08

Keywords

Acyl-Butyrolactones; Biofilms; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli Proteins; Frameshift Mutation; Gene Expression Profiling; Indoles; Mutation, Missense; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Quorum Sensing; Sequence Deletion; Trans-Activators

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Phenotype of Taxon Information Genotype Information (if known) Condition Information OMP ID OMP Term Name ECO ID ECO Term Name Notes Status

a mutation or genetic difference within a strain

  • Taxon: Escherichia coli
  • Strain: K-12
  • Substrain:
  • NCBI Taxon ID: 83333
  • Genotype of Reference Strain: sdiA
  • Genotype of Experimental Strain : sdiA1E11
  • Reference Condition:

OMP:0000176

biofilm phenotype

ECO:0000082

PCR experiment

biofilm formation is reduced from wild type due to increased indole concentration, 2A 2B.


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