Listeria phage A511

Listeria phage A511
Virus classification
Group: Group I (dsDNA)
Family: Myoviridae
Subfamily: Spounavirinae
Genus: Twortlikevirus
Species: Listeria phage A511

Listeria phage A511 is a virus of the family Myoviridae, genus Twortlikevirus.[1][2]

As a member of the group I of the Baltimore classification, Listeria phage A511 is a dsDNA viruses. All the Myoviridae family members share a nonenveloped morphology consisting of a head and a tail separated by a neck. Its genome is linear. The propagation of the virions includes the attaching to a host cell (a bacteria, as Listeria phage A511 is a bacteriophage) and the injection of the double stranded DNA; the host transcribes and translates it to manufacture new particles. To replicate its genetic content requires host cell DNA polymerases and, hence, the process is highly dependent on the cell cycle.[3]

Its genome contains 134,494 base pairs coding 190 putative open reading frames (ORFs) and 16 tRNA genes.[4]

References

  1. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) (2011). "Master Species List of 2011, version 2". Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  2. Adams, MJ; Carstens, EB (2012). "Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2012)". Archives of Virology 157 (7): 1411–22. doi:10.1007/s00705-012-1299-6. PMID 22481600.
  3. Baltimore, D (1971). "Expression of animal virus genomes". Bacteriological reviews 35 (3): 235–41. PMC 378387. PMID 4329869.
  4. Klumpp, J; Dorscht, J; Lurz, R; Bielmann, R; Wieland, M; Zimmer, M; Calendar, R; Loessner, MJ (2008). "The terminally redundant, nonpermuted genome of Listeria bacteriophage A511: A model for the SPO1-like myoviruses of gram-positive bacteria". Journal of Bacteriology 190 (17): 5753–65. doi:10.1128/JB.00461-08. PMC 2519532. PMID 18567664.


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