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Journal of Bacteriology, December 2001, p. 6794-6800, Vol. 183, No. 23
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.23.6794-6800.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Genetic Evidence for Parallel Pathways of Chaperone Activity in the Periplasm of Escherichia coli

Amy E. Rizzitello, Jill R. Harper, and Thomas J. Silhavy*

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Received 25 June 2001/Accepted 29 August 2001

The periplasm of Escherichia coli contains many proteins proposed to have redundant functions in protein folding. Using depletion analysis, we directly demonstrated that null mutations in skp and surA, as well as in degP and surA, result in synthetic phenotypes, suggesting that Skp, SurA, and DegP are functionally redundant. The Delta skp surA::kan combination has a bacteriostatic effect and leads to filamentation, while the degP::Tn10 surA::kan combination is bactericidal. The steady-state levels of several envelope proteins are greatly reduced upon depletion of a wild-type copy of surA in both instances. We suggest that the functional redundancy of Skp, SurA, and DegP lies in the periplasmic chaperone activity. Taken together, our data support a model in which the periplasm of E. coli contains parallel pathways for chaperone activity. In particular, we propose that Skp and DegP are components of the same pathway and that SurA is a component of a separate pathway. The loss of either pathway has minimal effects on the cell, while the loss of both pathways results in the synthetic phenotypes observed.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Phone: (609) 258-5899. Fax: (609) 258-2957. E-mail: tsilhavy{at}molbio.princeton.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, December 2001, p. 6794-6800, Vol. 183, No. 23
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.23.6794-6800.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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