“…Originally discovered as a gene whose mutations, groE, can lead to the failure of morphogenesis of bacteriophage X and other phages (6,13,44,46,52), subsequent genetic analysis produced mutants in one of two components, groEL (mopA) or groES (mopB) (47), which are defective in either DNA and RNA synthesis (50), SOS-induced mutagenesis and Weigle (UV) reactivation of UV-irradiated phage (7,26,33,43), protein export (31), proteolysis (45), septation (12), coupling of replication between F factor and the chromosome (36), or ability to grow at some or all temperatures (11,20). Further experiments implicated alterations in GroE levels or configuration in indirect suppression of a variety of mutations in other genes such as ssb (32,41), rpoH (30), dna (10,23), and various biosynthetic genes (48).…”