Pseudomonas chlororaphis strain PA23 is a biocontrol agent capable of protecting canola from stem rot disease caused by the fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. PA23 produces several inhibitory compounds that are under control of a complex regulatory network. Included in this cascade is the PhzRI quorum sensing (QS) system, which plays an essential role in PA23 biocontrol, as well as CsaRI and AurRI, which have not yet been characterized in PA23. The focus of the current study was to employ RNA sequencing to explore the spectrum of PA23 genes under QS control. In this work, we investigated genes under the control of the main QS transcriptional regulator, PhzR, as well as those differentially expressed in an AHL-deficient strain, PA23-6863, which constitutively expresses an AiiA lactonase, rendering the strain QS defective. Transcriptomic profiling revealed 545 differentially expressed genes (365 downregulated; 180 upregulated) in the phzR mutant and 534 genes (382 downregulated; 152 upregulated) in the AHL-deficient PA23-6863. In both strains, decreased expression of phenazine, pyrrolnitrin, and exoprotease biosynthetic genes was observed. We have previously reported that QS activates expression of these genes and their encoded products. In addition, elevated siderophore and decreased chitinase gene expression was observed in the QS-deficient stains, which was confirmed by phenotypic analysis. Inspection of the promoter regions revealed the presence of "phz-box" sequences in only 58 of the 807 differentially expressed genes, suggesting that much of the QS regulon is indirectly regulated. Consistent with this notion, 41 transcriptional regulators displayed altered expression in one or both of the QS-deficient strains. Collectively, our findings indicate that QS governs expression of approximately 13% of the PA23 genome affecting diverse functions ranging from secondary metabolite production to general metabolism.
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