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Thermus phage Zuza27

Host
Thermus thermophilus HB27c
Morphotype
filamentous
Lifecycle
chronic
Genome type
ssDNA
Genome length, bp
6 680
GC content, %
59
Isolation source
Kunashir Island, Valentina hot springs
Accession
PQ109074

Genome map

Zuza276 680 bp · 9 coding sequences

transposase — 1..912 (+) · 912 bpendonuclease — 969..2 291 (+) · 1 323 bpsingle strand DNA binding protein — 2 288..2 593 (+) · 306 bpminor coat protein — 2 593..2 682 (+) · 90 bpminor coat protein — 2 682..2 786 (+) · 105 bpmajor coat protein — 3 006..3 224 (+) · 219 bpattachment protein — 3 226..4 713 (+) · 1 488 bpminor coat protein — 5 030..5 458 (+) · 429 bpassembly protein — 5 455..6 405 (+) · 951 bp

Sequences

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Zuza27_genome.gb.gzannotation5.7 KB

Description

Produces very small, opaque plaques on the T. thermophilus HB27c lawn. Strikingly, the closely related T. thermophilus HB27 strain appears resistant to Zuza27 infection (no plaques on the HB27 lawn).

Zuza27 does not lyse the cell culture during infection. Infected cells contain a plasmid replicative form of Zuza27 that can be isolated using plasmid purification kits. It is probably (see the paper) that Zuza27 is capable of integration into the host genome.

See also: Zuza8

Related publications

  1. New Viruses Infecting Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Thermus thermophilus

    Matvey Kolesnik et al.

    Viruses2024