The autoinducer-2 (AI-2) quorum sensing system is involved in a range of population-based bacterial behaviors and has been engineered for cell-cell communication in synthetic biology systems. Investigation into the cellular mechanisms of AI-2 processing has determined that overexpression of uptake genes increases AI-2 uptake rate, and genomic deletions of degradation genes lowers the AI-2 level required for activation of reporter genes. Here, we combine these two strategies to engineer an Escherichia coli strain with enhanced ability to detect and respond to AI-2. In an E. coli strain that does not produce AI-2, we monitored AI-2 uptake and reporter protein expression in a strain that overproduced the AI-2 uptake or phosphorylation units LsrACDB or LsrK, a strain with the deletion of AI-2 degradation units LsrF and LsrG, and an "enhanced" strain with both overproduction of AI-2 uptake and deletion of AI-2 degradation elements. By adding up to 40 μM AI-2 to growing cell cultures, we determine that this "enhanced" AI-2 sensitive strain both uptakes AI-2 more rapidly and responds with increased reporter protein expression than the others. This work expands the toolbox for manipulating AI-2 quorum sensing processes both in native environments and for synthetic biology applications.
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