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Table 1.

Bacterial strains, plasmids and primers used in this study.

Strain(s) or Plasmid	Relevant Characteristic(s)	Source or Reference
P. aeruginosa strains
PAO1	Prototypic wild-type strain	[13]
ΔrpoN	Gm^r; rpoN derivative of PAO1 constructed by allelic exchange	[13]
ΔrpoNCOM	Gm^r;Tc^r; ΔrpoN carrying the pME6031-rpoN vector	This work
ΔrpoN/pME6032-pqsR	Gm^r;Tc^r; ΔrpoN carrying the pME6032-pqsR vector	This work
ΔrpoN/pME6032-pqsR/p_pqsA-gfp	Gm^r;Tc^r; Carb^r; ΔrpoN/pME6032-pqsR carrying the p_pqsA-gfp vector	This work
ΔrpoNCOM/p_pqsA-gfp	Gm^r;Tc^r; Carb^r; ΔrpoNCOM carrying the p_pqsA-gfp vector	This work
ΔrpoN/pME6032	Gm^r;Tc^r; ΔrpoN carrying the pME6032 vector	This work
ΔpqsR	pqsR derivative of PAO1 constructed by allelic exchange	[15]
Staphylococcus aureus
15981	Prototypic wild-type strain	[29]
15981/pSB2019	Chl^r; 15981 carrying the pSB2019 gfp-expressing vector	[29]
Plasmids
pME6031	Tc^r; Broad-host-range cloning vector	[30]
pME6031-rpoN	Tc^r; pME6031 carrying the rpoN gene	[4]
pME6032	Tc^r; broad host range vector	[30]
pME6032-pqsR	Tc^r; pME6032 carrying the pqsR gene	[15]
p_pqsA-gfp	Gm^r;Carb^r; pUCP22 carrying the pqsA-gfp transcriptional fusion	[16]