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FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF Pseudomonas aeruginosa VIRULENCE-RELATED GENES LOCATED IN A PATHOGENICITY ISLAND. Gianlucca Gonçalves Nicastro and Regina L. Baldini Departamento de Bioquímica, IQ, USP, São Paulo, Brazil Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) is a gammaproteobacterium that behaves as an opportunistic pathogen to a broad range of hosts. Strain PA14 carries the pathogenicity island PAPI-1 that contains several virulence-related genes of unknown function. Between two copies of direct repeat sequences in PAPI-1, there are two pairs of two-component regulatory systems, pvrSR and rcsCB and a putative fimbrial chaperone-usher gene cluster named cupD. In an attempt to uncover the functions of pvrSR and rcsCB, the phenotypes of non-polar mutant strains in each of the four genes were analyzed. No consistent differences were seen regarding swimming, swarming and twitching motilities of the mutant strains as compared to the wild-type. The strain with a deletion in pvrR, which codes for a response regulator containing an EAL domain, was slightly impaired in biofilm formation. Furthermore, strains lacking the histidine kinase RcsC and the predicted transcriptional activator RcsB presented variations in the length of the lipopolysaccharide O-antigen chains, suggesti ng that this pair of genes function together. Whether the expression of the wzz genes, which controls the length of O-antigen chain, is altered in the rcsC and rcsB mutant strains is currently under investigation. If this hypothesis is confirmed, this will be the first example of gene(s) in the core genome of Pa shown to be under regulation of genes located in a genomic island. Acknowledgements: CNPq and FAPESP Key-words: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, pathogenicity island, two-component systems