Mycobacterium phage patience

Mycobacterium phage patience
Virus classification
Group: Group I (dsDNA)
Order: Caudovirales
Family: Siphoviridae
Genus: Barnyardlikevirus
Species: Mycobacterium phage patience

Mycobacterium phage patience, also called Patience, is a bacteriophage that infects Mycobacterium smegmatis bacteria. The large difference between the GC content of this virus's genome (50.3%)[1] and that of its host (67.4%) indicate Patience likely evolved among bacteria of lower GC content but was able to infect M. smegmatis as well.[2]

References

  1. Jacobs-Sera, Deborah; Marinelli, Laura J.; Bowman, Charles; Broussard, Gregory W.; Guerrero Bustamante, Carlos; Boyle, Michelle M.; Petrova, Zaritza O.; Dedrick, Rebekah M.; Pope, Welkin H.; Modlin, Robert L.; Hendrix, Roger W.; Hatfull, Graham F. (December 2012). "On the nature of mycobacteriophage diversity and host preference". Virology. 434 (2): 187–201. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2012.09.026. PMC 3518647Freely accessible. PMID 23084079.
  2. Pope, W. H.; Jacobs-Sera, D.; Russell, D. A.; Rubin, D. H. F.; Kajee, A.; Msibi, Z. N. P.; Larsen, M. H.; Jacobs, W. R.; Lawrence, J. G.; Hendrix, R. W.; Hatfull, G. F. (2 December 2014). "Genomics and Proteomics of Mycobacteriophage Patience, an Accidental Tourist in the Mycobacterium Neighborhood". mBio. 5 (6): e02145–14–e02145–14. doi:10.1128/mBio.02145-14.


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