Characterization and Genome Sequence of Marine Alteromonas gracilis Phage PB15 Isolated from the Yellow Sea, China

Curr Microbiol. 2017 Jul;74(7):821-826. doi: 10.1007/s00284-017-1251-9. Epub 2017 Apr 20.

Abstract

A novel marine Alteromonas gracilis siphovirus, phage PB15, was isolated from the surface water of the Yellow Sea in August 2015. It has a head diameter of 58 ± 5 nm head and a contractile tail approximately 105 ± 10 nm in length, and overall, the morphology suggests that PB15 belongs to the family Siphoviridae. PB15 phage is stable at over the temperature range 0-60 °C. The best MOI of these phage was 0.1, and infectivity decreased above 60 °C. The results suggest that phage is stable at pH value ranging between 3.0 and 11.0. Chloroform test shows that PB15 is not a lipid-containing phage. A one-step growth curve with a strain of A. gracilis gave a latent period of 16 min and rise period of 24 min and burst size of 60 PFU/cell. Genomic analysis of PB15 reveals a genome size of 37,333 bp with 45.52% G+C content, and 61 ORFs. ORF sequences accounted for 30.36% of the genome sequence. There is no obvious similarity between PB15 and other known phages by genomic comparison using the BLASTN tool in the NCBI database.

MeSH terms

  • Alteromonas / virology*
  • Bacteriophages / classification
  • Bacteriophages / genetics
  • Bacteriophages / isolation & purification*
  • Base Composition
  • Base Sequence
  • China
  • DNA, Viral / genetics
  • Genome, Viral*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Open Reading Frames
  • Seawater / virology*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Siphoviridae / classification
  • Siphoviridae / genetics
  • Siphoviridae / isolation & purification*

Substances

  • DNA, Viral