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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2004, p. 6248-6253, Vol. 186, No. 18
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.18.6248-6253.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Complementation of an Escherichia coli DnaK Defect by Hsc70-DnaK Chimeric Proteins

Jean-Philippe Suppini,1 Mouna Amor,1 Jean-Hervé Alix,2 and Moncef M. Ladjimi1*

FRE 2621, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,1 UPR 9073, CNRS-Université Paris 7, Institut de Biologie Physico-chimique, Paris, France2

Received 23 March 2004/ Accepted 9 June 2004

Escherichia coli DnaK and rat Hsc70 are members of the highly conserved 70-kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70) family that show strong sequence and structure similarities and comparable functional properties in terms of interactions with peptides and unfolded proteins and cooperation with cochaperones. We show here that, while the DnaK protein is, as expected, able to complement an E. coli dnaK mutant strain for growth at high temperatures and {lambda} phage propagation, Hsc70 protein is not. However, an Hsc70 in which the peptide-binding domain has been replaced by that of DnaK is able to complement this strain for both phenotypes, suggesting that the peptide-binding domain of DnaK is essential to fulfill the specific functions of this protein necessary for growth at high temperatures and for {lambda} phage replication. The implications of these findings on the functional specificities of the Hsp70s and the role of protein-protein interactions in the DnaK chaperone system are discussed.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University P. & M. Curie, CNRS, 96 Bd. Raspail, 75006 Paris, France. Phone: 33 1 53 63 40 90. Fax: 33 1 42 22 13 98. E-mail: ladjimi{at}ccr.jussieu.fr.

Journal of Bacteriology, September 2004, p. 6248-6253, Vol. 186, No. 18
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.18.6248-6253.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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