Complete genome sequence of phi29-like Microbacterium foliorum podovirus phage PineapplePizza

Kylie LaBianca; Jessica Butura; Arden McKnight; Karin Pan; Sean Whelan; Elizabeth Punska; Robert Pause; Bright Igbinosa; Alexander Ribbe; Peter Chien; Daniel Russell; Rebecca Garlena; Graham Hatfull; Deborah Jacobs-Sera; Jessica Rocheleau

doi:10.1128/MRA.00478-23

Complete genome sequence of phi29-like Microbacterium foliorum podovirus phage PineapplePizza

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023 Oct 19;12(10):e0047823. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00478-23. Epub 2023 Sep 6.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Abstract

Bacteriophage PineapplePizza is a podovirus infecting Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224. The genome is 16,662 bp long and contains 23 predicted protein-coding genes. Interestingly, PineapplePizza shows amino acid similarities to well-studied Bacillus subtilis phage phi29.

Keywords: bacteriophages.