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Characterization and genomic analysis of phage asccphi28, a phage of the family Podoviridae infecting Lactococcus lactis.

ABSTRACT: Bacteriophage asccphi28 infects dairy fermentation strains of Lactococcus lactis. This report describes characterization of asccphi28 and its full genome sequence. Phage asccphi28 has a prolate head, whiskers, and a short tail (C2 morphotype). This morphology and DNA hybridization to L. lactis phage P369 DNA showed that asccphi28 belongs to the P034 phage species, a group rarely encountered in the dairy industry. The burst size of asccphi28 was found to be 121 +/- 18 PFU per infected bacterial cell after a latent period of 44 min. The linear genome (18,762 bp) contains 28 possible open reading frames (ORFs) comprising 90% of the total genome. The ORFs are arranged bidirectionally in recognizable functional modules. The genome contains 577 bp inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) and putatively eight promoters and four terminators. The presence of ITRs, a phage-encoded DNA polymerase, and a terminal protein that binds to the DNA, along with BLAST and morphology data, show that asccphi28 more closely resembles streptococcal phage Cp-1 and the phi29-like phages that infect Bacillus subtilis than it resembles common lactococcal phages. The sequence of this phage is the first published sequence of a P034 species phage genome.

SUBMITTER: Kotsonis SE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2423020 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Characterization and genomic analysis of phage asccphi28, a phage of the family Podoviridae infecting Lactococcus lactis.

Kotsonis Steven E SE Powell Ian B IB Pillidge Christopher J CJ Limsowtin Gaëtan K Y GK Hillier Alan J AJ Davidson Barrie E BE

Applied and environmental microbiology 20080404 11

Bacteriophage asccphi28 infects dairy fermentation strains of Lactococcus lactis. This report describes characterization of asccphi28 and its full genome sequence. Phage asccphi28 has a prolate head, whiskers, and a short tail (C2 morphotype). This morphology and DNA hybridization to L. lactis phage P369 DNA showed that asccphi28 belongs to the P034 phage species, a group rarely encountered in the dairy industry. The burst size of asccphi28 was found to be 121 +/- 18 PFU per infected bacterial c ...[more]

PMID: 18390678

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Characterization and genomic analysis of phage asccphi28, a phage of the family Podoviridae infecting Lactococcus lactis.

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Characterization and genomic analysis of phage asccphi28, a phage of the family Podoviridae infecting Lactococcus lactis.

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