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is the causative agent of melioidosis, a fatal human tropical disease. The non-specific DNA-binding protein DpsA plays a key role in protecting from oxidative stress mediated, for example, by organic hydroperoxides. The regulation of expression is poorly understood but one possibility is that it is regulated in a cell population density-dependent manner via -acylhomoserine lactone (AHL)-dependent quorum sensing (QS) since a -box motif has been located within the promoter region. Using liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry, it was first established that strain PP844 synthesizes AHLs. These were identified as -octanoylhomoserine lactone (C8-HSL), -(3-oxooctanoyl)homoserine lactone (3-oxo-C8-HSL), -(3-hydroxyoctanoyl)-homoserine lactone (3-hydroxy-C8-HSL), -decanoylhomoserine lactone (C10-HSL), -(3-hydroxydecanoyl) homoserine lactone (3-hydroxy-C10-HSL) and -(3-hydroxydodecanoyl)homoserine lactone (3-hydroxy-C12-HSL). Mutation of the genes encoding the LuxI homologue BpsI or the LuxR homologue BpsR resulted in the loss of C8-HSL and 3-oxo-C8-HSL synthesis, demonstrating that BpsI was responsible for directing the synthesis of these AHLs only and that expression and hence C8-HSL and 3-oxo-C8-HSL production depends on BpsR. In , and mutants, expression was substantially down-regulated. Furthermore, expression in required both BpsR and C8-HSL. -deficient mutants exhibited hypersensitivity to the organic hydroperoxide -butyl hydroperoxide by displaying a reduction in cell viability which was restored by provision of exogenous C8-HSL ( mutant only), by complementation with the genes or by overexpression of . These data indicate that in , QS regulates the response to oxidative stress at least in part via the BpsR/C8-HSL-dependent regulation of DpsA.

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