F1 and tbilisi are closely related brucellaphages exhibiting some distinct nucleotide variations which determine the host specificity

Jens A Hammerl; Sascha Al Dahouk; Karsten Nöckler; Cornelia Göllner; Bernd Appel; Stefan Hertwig

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01250-13

F1 and tbilisi are closely related brucellaphages exhibiting some distinct nucleotide variations which determine the host specificity

Genome Announc. 2014 Jan 30;2(1):e01250-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01250-13.

Authors

Jens A Hammerl¹, Sascha Al Dahouk, Karsten Nöckler, Cornelia Göllner, Bernd Appel, Stefan Hertwig

Affiliation

¹ Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung), Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

We report on the 41,143-bp genome of brucellaphage F1, a podovirus that infects several Brucella species. The F1 genome is almost identical to the genome of brucellaphage Tb. However, some structural proteins of the phages exhibit extensive polymorphisms and might be responsible for their different host ranges.