Complete genome sequence of bacteriophage Deep-Purple, a novel member of the family Siphoviridae infecting Bacillus cereus
(2018) Archives of Virology — Vol. 163, n° 9, p. 2555-2559 (2018)
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Hock, Louise 
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- Bacteriophage Deep-Purple, isolated from an agricultural soil in Belgium, lyses the emetic Bacillus weihenstephanensis strain LH002 and exhibits a lytic activity against 55% of emetic Bacillus cereus and B. weihenstephanensis strains. Deep-Purple is able to complete its lytic cycle within 45 min and is stable to a large range of pHs and temperatures below 60 °C. It possesses an icosahedral head of about 63 nm in diameter and a non-contractile tail of approximately 165 nm in length. The genome of this newly classifiable Siphoviridae family member is 36,278 bp long, with a G+C content of 38.36% and 40 putative CDSs. Most CDSs do not display similarity with other B. cereus group phages supporting the idea that Deep-Purple belongs to a new and currently uncharacterised Siphoviridae subfamily.
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Hock, L., Gillis, A., & Mahillon, J. (2018). Complete genome sequence of bacteriophage Deep-Purple, a novel member of the family Siphoviridae infecting Bacillus cereus. Archives of Virology, 163(9), 2555-2559. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-3865-z (Original work published 2018)