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SUBMITTER: Luo CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3421732 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Luo Cheng-Hung CH Chiou Pei-Yu PY Yang Chiou-Ying CY Lin Nien-Tsung NT
Journal of virology 20120613 16
Helicobacter pylori is a common human pathogen that has been identified to be carcinogenic. This study isolated the temperate bacteriophage 1961P from the lysate of a clinical strain of H. pylori isolated in Taiwan. The bacteriophage has an icosahedral head and a short tail, typical of the Podoviridae family. Its double-stranded DNA genome is 26,836 bp long and has 33 open reading frames. Only 9 of the predicted proteins have homologs of known functions, while the remaining 24 are only similar t ...[more]