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Pseudomonas Phage PaBG-A Jumbo Member of an Old Parasite Family.

ABSTRACT: Bacteriophage PaBG is a jumbo Myoviridae phage isolated from water of Lake Baikal. This phage has limited diffusion ability and thermal stability and infects a narrow range of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. Therefore, it is hardly suitable for phage therapy applications. However, the analysis of the genome of PaBG presents a number of insights into the evolutionary history of this phage and jumbo phages in general. We suggest that PaBG represents an ancient group distantly related to all known classified families of phages.

SUBMITTER: Evseev P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7412058 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Pseudomonas Phage PaBG-A Jumbo Member of an Old Parasite Family.

Evseev Peter P Sykilinda Nina N Gorshkova Anna A Kurochkina Lidia L Ziganshin Rustam R Drucker Valentin V Miroshnikov Konstantin K

Viruses 20200703 7

Bacteriophage PaBG is a jumbo Myoviridae phage isolated from water of Lake Baikal. This phage has limited diffusion ability and thermal stability and infects a narrow range of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. Therefore, it is hardly suitable for phage therapy applications. However, the analysis of the genome of PaBG presents a number of insights into the evolutionary history of this phage and jumbo phages in general. We suggest that PaBG represents an ancient group distantly related to all ...[more]

PMID: 32635178

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