Grimaud R, Toussaint A
Unité Transposition Bactérienne, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Rhode St Genèse, Belgium.
J Bacteriol. 1998 Mar;180(5):1148-53. doi: 10.1128/JB.180.5.1148-1153.1998.
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.
与其他几种大肠杆菌噬菌体一样,可转座噬菌体Mu在groE宿主中不能正常发育(M. 帕托、M. 班纳吉、L. 德梅特和A. 图桑,《细菌学杂志》169:5504 - 5509, 1987年)。我们在此表明,诱导groE Mu溶原菌后获得的裂解物含有游离的无活性尾部和空头部。因此,GroEL和GroES对于Mu头部和Mu尾部的正确组装至关重要。有证据表明,groE突变会抑制噬菌体头部蛋白gpH的加工以及一种疑似早期Mu头部组装中间体的25S复合物的形成。