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Production of the secondary metabolite phenazine-1-carboxamide (PCN) by PCL1391 is crucial for biocontrol activity against the phytopathogen f. sp. on tomato. Regulation of PCN production involves the two-component signalling system GacS/GacA, the quorum-sensing system PhzI/PhzR and the regulator PsrA. This paper reports that a functional is required for optimal PCN and -hexanoyl--homoserine lactone (C-HSL) production. Constitutive expression of is able to complement partially the defect of a mutant for PCN and -acylhomoserine lactone production. Western blotting shows that is regulated by . Altogether, these results suggest the existence of a cascade consisting of / upstream of and , which influence expression of /. Overproduction of complements the effects on PCN and C-HSL production of all mutations tested in the regulatory cascade, which shows that a functional quorum-sensing system is essential and sufficient for PCN synthesis. In addition, the relative amounts of PCN, phenazine-1-carboxylic acid and C-HSL produced by and mutants harbouring a constitutively expressed indicate an even more complex network of interactions, probably involving other genes. Preliminary microarray analyses of the transcriptomics of the and mutants support the model of regulation described in this study and allow identification of new genes that might be involved in secondary metabolism.

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