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Isolation and Characterization of an Aeromonas punctata Bacteriophage
The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal
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31 Aug 2015 •
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DOI: 10.2174/1874120701509010185
Abstract
An Aeromonas punctata bacteriophage, named as DH1, was isolated from East Lake, Wuhan city, China. Morphologically, phage DH1 showed a typical Myoviridae structure consisting of an isometric head (50 nm in diameter) and a visible tail. The bacteriophage had a latent period of about 90 minutes and an average burst size of about 125 PFU•Cell-1. Restriction enzyme pattern of the bacteriophage’s genome showed that the genome is a double-stranded DNA and about 34kb in size. The sequenced genomic fragments showed highly similarities to gp04 and gp16 sequence of other Myoviridae bacteriophages at protein level.
Keywords: Myoviridae, bacteriophage, Aeromonas punctata.
