Nine Cluster E mycobacteriophages isolated from soil

Joseph M Gaballa; Amanda Freise; Krisanavane Reddi; Jordan Moberg Parker

doi:10.1128/mra.00463-24

Nine Cluster E mycobacteriophages isolated from soil

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Oct 10;13(10):e0046324. doi: 10.1128/mra.00463-24. Epub 2024 Aug 30.

Authors

Joseph M Gaballa¹, Amanda Freise², Krisanavane Reddi², Jordan Moberg Parker^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
² Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, California, USA.

Abstract

Mycobacteriophages FireRed, MISSy, MPhalcon, Murica, Sassay, Terminus, Willez, YassJohnny, and Youngblood were isolated from soil using Mycobacterium smegmatis as a host. Genome sequencing and annotation revealed that they belong to Actinobacteriophage Cluster E. Here, we describe the features of their genomes and discuss similarities within these Cluster E phages.

Keywords: bacteriophages; mycobacteriophage.