Genome sequence of temperate Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteriophage vB_VpaS_MAR10

Argentina Alanis Villa; Andrew M Kropinski; Reza Abbasifar; Arash Abbasifar; Mansel W Griffiths

doi:10.1128/JVI.02666-12

Genome sequence of temperate Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteriophage vB_VpaS_MAR10

J Virol. 2012 Dec;86(24):13851-2. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02666-12.

Authors

Argentina Alanis Villa¹, Andrew M Kropinski, Reza Abbasifar, Arash Abbasifar, Mansel W Griffiths

Affiliation

¹ Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is recognized as one of the main causes of human gastroenteritis associated with seafood. We have fully sequenced the genome of a newly isolated phage, vB_VpaS_MAR10, which lysed 61.9% of the V. parahaemolyticus strains tested. Phage MAR10 is a temperate siphovirus, and its genome consists of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) with a size of 78,751 bp, a G+C content of 49.70%, and 104 open reading frames. Bioinformatic analysis shows that phage MAR10 is closely related to Vibrio phage SSP002.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Bacteriophages / genetics*
Genome, Viral*
Molecular Sequence Data
Vibrio parahaemolyticus / virology*

Associated data

GENBANK/JX556418