Genome Sequence of a Podovirus (AAPEc6) Isolated from Wastewater in New Zealand That Infects Escherichia coli O45:H10

Judith Nonis; Aruni Premaratne; Craig Billington; Arvind Varsani

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00462-17

Genome Sequence of a Podovirus (AAPEc6) Isolated from Wastewater in New Zealand That Infects Escherichia coli O45:H10

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 3;5(31):e00462-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00462-17.

Authors

Judith Nonis^{1

2}, Aruni Premaratne², Craig Billington³, Arvind Varsani^{4

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ School of the Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
² Institute of Environmental Science & Research Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand.
³ Institute of Environmental Science & Research Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand craig.billington@esr.cri.nz arvind.varsani@asu.edu.
⁴ School of the Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand craig.billington@esr.cri.nz arvind.varsani@asu.edu.
⁵ Structural Biology Research Unit, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

Abstract

Bacteriophages are ideal candidates for pathogen biocontrol to mitigate outbreaks of prevalent foodborne pathogens, such as Escherichia coli We identified a bacteriophage (AAPEc6) from wastewater that infects E. coli O45:H10. The AAPEc6 genome sequence shares 93% identity (with 92% coverage) to enterobacterial phage K1E (Sp6likevirus) in the Autographivirinae subfamily (Podoviridae).