Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Siphophage Lorac

Antoine Marc; Katie Cater; Rohit Kongari; Asma Hatoum-Aslan; Ryland F Young 3rd; Mei Liu

doi:10.1128/MRA.00586-19

Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Siphophage Lorac

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jul 3;8(27):e00586-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00586-19.

Authors

Antoine Marc¹, Katie Cater², Rohit Kongari¹, Asma Hatoum-Aslan³, Ryland F Young 3rd¹, Mei Liu⁴

Affiliations

¹ Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA asma.hatoum@ua.edu meiliu@tamu.edu.
⁴ Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA asma.hatoum@ua.edu meiliu@tamu.edu.

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of a wide range of clinical infections. Here, we announce the complete genome sequence of S. aureus siphophage Lorac, a phiETA-like temperate phage that is similar at the nucleotide level to the previously described S. aureus prophage phiNM2.

Grants and funding

R35 GM136396/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States