“…C-di-GMP inhibits motility by binding to the molecular brake protein YcgR (Boehm et al, 2010;Paul, Nieto, Carlquist, Blair, & Harshey, 2010;Ryjenkov, Simm, Römling, & Gomelsky, 2006) and through production of cellulose (Le Guyon, Simm, Rehn, & Römling, 2015;Zorraquino et al, 2013)). Motility is promoted by the key PDE YhjH, which effectively removes motility-dedicated c-di-GMP (Le Guyon et al, 2015;Pesavento et al, 2008;Simm et al, 2007) and consequently the motility/sessility switch is observed upon deletion of YhjH (Simm et al, 2007) or, more pronounced, upon overexpression of DGCs and PDEs (Simm et al, 2004). Although csgD represses swimming motility in E. coli K-12 (Dudin et al, 2014;Ogasawara, Yamamoto, & Ishihama, 2011), a correlation between csgD expression and motility was not observed.…”