Two novel Erwinia amylovora bacteriophages, Loshitsa2 and Micant, isolated in Belarus

Natalya V Besarab; Andrey V Letarov; Eugene E Kulikov; Vladislav V Babenko; Ilya S Belalov; Alexander L Lagonenko; Alla K Golomidova; Anatoly N Evtushenkov

doi:10.1007/s00705-022-05601-9

Two novel Erwinia amylovora bacteriophages, Loshitsa2 and Micant, isolated in Belarus

Arch Virol. 2022 Dec;167(12):2633-2642. doi: 10.1007/s00705-022-05601-9. Epub 2022 Oct 7.

Authors

Natalya V Besarab¹, Andrey V Letarov², Eugene E Kulikov², Vladislav V Babenko³, Ilya S Belalov², Alexander L Lagonenko⁴, Alla K Golomidova², Anatoly N Evtushenkov⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Belarusian State University, Nezavisimisty Ave., 4, 220030, Minsk, Belarus. 13natal0990@gmail.com.
² Research Center of Biotechnology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Winogradsky Institute of microbiology, pr. 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7 bld. 2, 117312, Moscow, Russia.
³ GENOMIC Research and Computational Biology Lab, FSCC of Physico-Chemical Medicine, Federal Medical-Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia.
⁴ Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Belarusian State University, Nezavisimisty Ave., 4, 220030, Minsk, Belarus.

PMID: 36207555
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-022-05601-9

Abstract

The complete genomes of the new Erwinia amylovora bacteriophages Loshitsa2 and Micant are 43,092 bp and 43,028 bp long, respectively, encode 51 putative proteins, and have two tRNA genes. Comparative analysis with representatives of the class Caudoviricetes suggests that bacteriophages Loshitsa2 and Micant are related to LIMElight bacteriophage belonging to the family Autographiviridae and could be proposed to be members of a novel subfamily.

MeSH terms

Bacteriophages* / genetics
Erwinia amylovora* / genetics
Plant Diseases