Affiliation:
1. Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21202
2. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The genome of cyanophage P60, a lytic virus which infects marine
Synechococcus
WH7803, was completely sequenced. The P60 genome contained 47,872 bp with 80 potential open reading frames that were mostly similar to the genes found in lytic phages like T7, phi-YeO3-12, and SIO1. The DNA replication system, consisting of primase-helicase and DNA polymerase, appeared to be more conserved in podoviruses than in siphoviruses and myoviruses, suggesting that DNA replication genes could be the critical elements for lytic phages. Strikingly high sequence similarities in the regions coding for nucleotide metabolism were found between cyanophage P60 and marine unicellular cyanobacteria.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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