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The human opportunistic pathogen is the major cause of morbidity and mortality of cystic fibrosis patients and is responsible for a variety of infections in compromised hosts. Using PCR-based signature-tagged mutagenesis, we identified a STM5437 mutant with an insertion into the PA5437 gene (called for putative pyruvate carboxylase regulator). PycR inactivation results in 100 000-fold attenuation of virulence in the rat lung . PycR has the signature of a transcriptional regulator with a predicted helix–turn–helix motif binding to a typical LysR DNA binding site in the PA5436 ()–PA5437 () intercistronic region. Two pyruvate carboxylase subunits ( and ) are divergently transcribed upstream of . Transcriptional start sites of and are located at −127 and −88 bp upstream of their initiation codons with Shine–Dalgarno and putative promoter sequences containing −10 and −35 sequences. The DNA binding of PycR was confirmed by DNA mobility shift assay. Genome-wide transcriptional profiling and quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) indicated that the genes differentially regulated by PycR include two pyruvate carboxylase genes and genes necessary for lipid metabolism, lipolytic activity, anaerobic respiration and biofilm formation. PycR is a regulator with pleiotropic effects on virulence factors, such as lipase and esterase expression and biofilm formation, which are important for maintenance of in chronic lung infection.

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