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Many Gram-negative bacteria produce <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) for interspecies communication. In this study, we isolated and identified a bacterial strain, <jats:italic>Mesoflavibacter zeaxanthinifaciens<\/jats:italic> XY-85, from an <jats:italic>Onchidium<\/jats:italic> sp. collected from the intertidal zone of Dapeng Reserve in Shenzhen, China, and found it had strong AHL degradative activity. Whole genome sequencing and blast analysis revealed that XY-85 harbors an AHL lactonase (designated MzmL), which is predicted to have an <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>-terminal signal peptide and share the \u201cHXHXDH\u201d motif with known AHL lactonases belonging to the Metallo-<jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>-lactamase superfamily. Phylogenetic studies showed MzmL was closest to marine lactonase cluster members, MomL and Aii20J, instead of the AiiA type lactonases. Ultra performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis confirmed that MzmL functions as an AHL lactonase catalyzing AHL degradation through lactone hydrolysis. MzmL could degrade both short- and long-chain AHLs with or without a substitution of oxo-group at the C-3 position, and retained full bioactivity under a wide range of temperatures (28\u2013100\u00b0C) and pHs (4\u201311). Furthermore, MzmL significantly reduced <jats:italic>Pectobacterium carotovorum<\/jats:italic> subsp. <jats:italic>carotovorum<\/jats:italic> virulence factor production <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>, such as biofilm formation and plant cell wall degrading enzyme production, and inhibited soft rot development on potato slices. These results demonstrated that MzmL may be a novel type of AHL lactonase with good environmental stability, and has great potential to be developed into a novel biological control agent for bacterial disease management.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2024.1353711","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,9]],"date-time":"2024-05-09T05:21:56Z","timestamp":1715232116000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["MzmL, a novel marine derived N-acyl homoserine lactonase from Mesoflavibacter zeaxanthinifaciens that attenuates Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum virulence"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Lingyun","family":"Hao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jinyou","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuotian","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junliang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"370","DOI":"10.3390\/md16100370","article-title":"Characterization of a novel N-acylhomoserine lactonase RmmL from Ruegeria mobilis YJ3","volume":"16","author":"Cai","year":"2018","journal-title":"Mar. 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