Mycobacterium virus Patience: Difference between revisions
JHCaufield (talk | contribs) A new phage stub |
m ComfyKem moved page Patience (bacteriophage) to Mycobacterium phage patience: species name |
(No difference)
| |
Revision as of 02:18, 19 March 2015
| Patience | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Order: | |
| Family: | |
| Species: | Patience
|
Patience is a bacteriophage that infects Mycobacterium smegmatis bacteria. The large difference between the GC content of this virus' genome (50.3%)[1] and that of its host (67.4%) indicate Patience likely evolved among bacteria of lower GC content but was able to infect M. smegmatis as well.[2]
References
- ^ Jacobs-Sera, Deborah; Marinelli, Laura J.; Bowman, Charles; Broussard, Gregory W.; Guerrero Bustamante, Carlos; Boyle, Michelle M.; Petrova, Zaritza O.; Dedrick, Rebekah M.; Pope, Welkin H.; Modlin, Robert L.; Hendrix, Roger W.; Hatfull, Graham F. (December 2012). "On the nature of mycobacteriophage diversity and host preference". Virology. 434 (2): 187–201. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2012.09.026.
- ^ Pope, W. H.; Jacobs-Sera, D.; Russell, D. A.; Rubin, D. H. F.; Kajee, A.; Msibi, Z. N. P.; Larsen, M. H.; Jacobs, W. R.; Lawrence, J. G.; Hendrix, R. W.; Hatfull, G. F. (2 December 2014). "Genomics and Proteomics of Mycobacteriophage Patience, an Accidental Tourist in the Mycobacterium Neighborhood". mBio. 5 (6): e02145-14–e02145-14. doi:10.1128/mBio.02145-14.
External links
 | This virus-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |