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In Gram-negative bacteria, production of adhesion factors and extracellular polysaccharides (EPS) is promoted by the activity of diguanylate cyclases (DGCs), a class of enzymes able to catalyse the synthesis of the signal molecule bis-(3′,5′)-cyclic di-guanylic acid (c-di-GMP). In this report we show that in , overexpression of the YddV protein, but not of other DGCs such as AdrA and YcdT, induces the production of the EPS poly--acetylglucosamine (PNAG) by stimulating expression of , the PNAG-biosynthetic operon. Stimulation of PNAG production and activation of expression by the YddV protein are abolished by inactivation of its GGDEF motif, responsible for DGC activity. Consistent with the effects of YddV overexpression, inactivation of the gene negatively affects transcription and PNAG-mediated biofilm formation. regulation by the gene also takes place in a mutant carrying a partial deletion of the gene, which encodes the main regulator of expression, suggesting that YddV does not regulate through modulation of CsrA activity. Our results demonstrate that PNAG production does not simply respond to intracellular c-di-GMP concentration, but specifically requires the DGC activity of the YddV protein, thus supporting the notion that in , c-di-GMP biosynthesis by a given DGC protein triggers regulatory events that lead to activation of specific sets of EPS biosynthetic genes or proteins.

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