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Isolation and Characterization of an Aeromonas punctata Bacteriophage
Cheng Kai 1, 2, Zhang Denglan 1, Deng Jingxuan 2, Zhao Yijun 1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 185
Last Page: 187
Publisher ID: TOBEJ-9-185
DOI: 10.2174/1874120701509010185
Article History:
Received Date: 27/8/2014Revision Received Date: 21/11/2014
Acceptance Date: 19/12/2014
Electronic publication date: 31/8/2015
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Abstract
An Aeromonas punctata bacteriophage, named as DH1, was isolated from East Lake, Wuhan city, China. Morphologically, phage DH1 showed a typical Myoviridae structure consisting of an isometric head (50 nm in diameter) and a visible tail. The bacteriophage had a latent period of about 90 minutes and an average burst size of about 125 PFU•Cell-1. Restriction enzyme pattern of the bacteriophage’s genome showed that the genome is a double-stranded DNA and about 34kb in size. The sequenced genomic fragments showed highly similarities to gp04 and gp16 sequence of other Myoviridae bacteriophages at protein level.