Open AccessGenome Sequences of Four Potentially Therapeutic Bacteriophages Infecting Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli
Author(s) -
Carla Días,
Carina Almeida,
Małgorzata Łobocka,
Hugo Oliveira
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
microbiology resource announcements
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.383
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2576-098X
DOI - 10.1128/mra.00749-20
Subject(s) - escherichia coli , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , genome , shiga toxin , serotype , gene , toxin , virology , genetics
Four phages infecting Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains of different serotypes were isolated from wastewater samples. Their virion DNAs range from 51 to 170 kbp, are circularly permuted or have defined terminal repeats, and can encode 82 to 279 proteins. Despite their high similarity to other phages, only about 30% of their genes have a predicted function.