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Abstract

Swarming by involves differentiation of typical short vegetative rods into filamentous hyper-flagellated swarm cells that undergo cycles of rapid and co-ordinated population migration across surfaces and exhibit high levels of virulence gene expression. RsmA (repressor of secondary metabolites) and CsrA, its homologue in , control many phenotypic traits, such as motility and pathogenesis in species, glycogen biosynthesis, cell size and biofilm formation in and swarming motility in . To investigate the role of RsmA in , the gene from (hereafter referred to as ) was cloned. RsmA showed high sequence similarity to CsrA and RsmA cloned from subsp. , , and and could complement an mutant in glycogen synthesis. A low-copy-number plasmid carrying expressed from its native promoter caused suppression of swarming motility and expression of virulence factors in . mRNA stability assays suggested that RsmA inhibited virulence factor expression through promoting mRNA degradation. RsmA homologues cloned from and subsp. could also inhibit swarming and virulence factor expression in .

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