Isolation and genome sequence annotation of SallyK, a newly discovered cluster EG bacteriophage infecting Microbacterium

Paige R Wood; Emily A Sullivan; Rylee T Mathison; Sariah M Hepworth; R Scott Graves; Breanna Danklefsen; Omer Almahie; Carlos Serna; Dylan J Hunt; Reganne Brewster; Skylar Bartholomew; Jack F Shurley; Anna S Grinath; Michael A Thomas

doi:10.1128/MRA.00943-23

Isolation and genome sequence annotation of SallyK, a newly discovered cluster EG bacteriophage infecting Microbacterium

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023 Dec 14;12(12):e0094323. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00943-23. Epub 2023 Nov 22.

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA.

Abstract

Discovered from soil in a flower planter in Pocatello, Idaho and using Microbacterium foliorum, SallyK is a lytic bacteriophage with a siphovirus morphology. It has a 62,883 bp-long genome with 103 putative genes. Based on gene content similarity to actinobacteriophages, SallyK is assigned to cluster EG.

Keywords: Microbacterium; SEA-PHAGES; bacteriophage.