Assembly of Both the Head and Tail of Bacteriophage Mu Is Blocked in Escherichia coli groEL and groES Mutants

Author:

Grimaud Régis1,Toussaint Ariane2

Affiliation:

1. Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Université Joseph Fourier, F38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France1

2. Laboratoire de Génétique des Procaryotes, Unité Transposition Bactérienne, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B1640 Rhode St Genèse, Belgium,2 and

Abstract

ABSTRACT Like several other Escherichia coli bacteriophages, transposable phage Mu does not develop normally in groE hosts (M. Pato, M. Banerjee, L. Desmet, and A. Toussaint, J. Bacteriol. 169:5504–5509, 1987). We show here that lysates obtained upon induction of groE Mu lysogens contain free inactive tails and empty heads. GroEL and GroES are thus essential for the correct assembly of both Mu heads and Mu tails. Evidence is presented that groE mutations inhibit processing of the phage head protein gpH as well as the formation of a 25S complex suspected to be an early Mu head assembly intermediate.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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