Journal
EXTREMOPHILES
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 49-58Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-014-0702-5
Keywords
Deep-sea virus; Temperate bacteriophage; Genome sequence; Psychrotolerant; Cold-adapted; Marine Rhizobiales
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [60565555, 24370015]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26660154] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A temperate phage (termed AmM-1) was identified from the psychrotolerant Rhizobiales bacterium Aurantimonas sp. C5-1, which was isolated from bathypelagic water (water depth = 1,500 m) in the northwest Pacific. The AmM-1 genome is 47,800 bp in length and contains 67 coding sequences. Although phage AmM-1 morphologically belongs to the family Myoviridae, its genomic structure, particularly modular genome organization, is similar to that of lambda-type phages of Siphoviridae. Genetic and phylogenetic analyses of the structural core genes also revealed that AmM-1 has a mosaic genomic structure that includes a lambda-like head (Siphoviridae) and P2-like tail (Myoviridae). The sequences of the structural core genes of AmM-1 are distinct from those of previously characterized phage groups but similar to those of recently identified one prophage element and one phage of marine Rhizobiales bacteria: a potential prophage element in the marine psychrotolerant Aureimonas ureilytica DSM 18598 genome and the temperate phage RR-1A infecting Rhizobium radiobacter P007 isolated from deep subseafloor sediment. The mosaic genome structure of AmM-1 suggests the occurrence of genetic exchange between distinct temperate phages in marine Rhizobiales populations.
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