Complete Genome Sequences of Three phi29-Like Bacillus cereus Group Podoviridae

Ivan Erill; Steven M Caruso; 2016 UMBC Phage Hunters

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00701-17

Complete Genome Sequences of Three phi29-Like Bacillus cereus Group Podoviridae

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 20;5(29):e00701-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00701-17.

Authors

Ivan Erill¹, Steven M Caruso²; 2016 UMBC Phage Hunters

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA scaruso@umbc.edu.

Abstract

Three double-stranded DNA phi29-like Bacillus cereus group bacteriophages, BeachBum, Harambe, and SerPounce, were identified and characterized. BeachBum and Harambe are closely related but are remarkably different from previously identified phi29-like phages. SerPounce is substantially closer to other phi29-like phages, enabling the identification of its prohead RNA (pRNA) gene.