2005
DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.9.3188-3200.2005
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The Genome of S-PM2, a “Photosynthetic” T4-Type Bacteriophage That Infects Marine Synechococcus Strains

Abstract: Bacteriophage S-PM2 infects several strains of the abundant and ecologically important marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus. A large lytic phage with an isometric icosahedral head, S-PM2 has a contractile tail and by this criterion is classified as a myovirus ( Strains of unicellular cyanobacteria of the genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus are abundant in the world's oceans and constitute the prokaryotic component of the picophytoplankton. Together, these photosynthetic bacteria contribute a significant pr… Show more

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“…Cyanophages, viruses that infect cyanobacteria, are abundant and broadly distributed in the global oceans (Suttle, 2007;Williamson et al, 2008). Cyanophage genomes carry orthologs of host genes involved in a variety of host processes, including phosphate acquisition, carbon metabolism, photosynthesis and response to light stress (Lindell et al, 2004;Mann et al, 2005;Sullivan et al, 2005;Weigele et al, 2007;Sullivan et al, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cyanophages, viruses that infect cyanobacteria, are abundant and broadly distributed in the global oceans (Suttle, 2007;Williamson et al, 2008). Cyanophage genomes carry orthologs of host genes involved in a variety of host processes, including phosphate acquisition, carbon metabolism, photosynthesis and response to light stress (Lindell et al, 2004;Mann et al, 2005;Sullivan et al, 2005;Weigele et al, 2007;Sullivan et al, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…( Chen and Lu, 2002;Mann et al, 2005;Millard et al, 2009;Sullivan et al, 2010;Huang et al, 2012;Sabehi et al, 2012) and Prochlorococcus spp. (Sullivan et al, 2005(Sullivan et al, , 2009Sullivan et al, 2010;Labrie et al, 2013), as well as one from a myovirus that infects both genera (Weigele et al, 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(Sullivan et al, 2005(Sullivan et al, , 2009Sullivan et al, 2010;Labrie et al, 2013), as well as one from a myovirus that infects both genera (Weigele et al, 2007). Most cyanophage isolates are myoviruses with genome size ranges from 161 to 252 kb, and share core genes involved in virion structure, DNA replication and host-derived genes with T4-like phage (Mann et al, 2005;Millard et al, 2009;Sullivan et al, 2010) A number of sequenced marine cyanophages are also podoviruses, having genomes between 42 kb and 47 kb, and sharing similar genome architecture, as well as core genes with T7-like phages, including genes involved in virion structure, DNA replication and that are host-derived (Chen and Lu, 2002;Sullivan et al, 2005;Labrie et al, 2013). The few sequenced marine cyanophages that are siphoviruses have genome sizes between 30 and 108 kb (Sullivan et al, 2005;Huang et al, 2012;Ponsero et al, 2013), and, although divergent from other siphoviruses, they share several functional genes with lambda-like phages.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The D1 and D2 proteins form the reaction center dimer of PSII that binds the primary electron donors and acceptors. Oxygenic photosynthesis genes were recently found in the genomes of cyanophages from two different viral families (Myoviridae and Podoviridae) (Mann et al, 2003(Mann et al, , 2005Lindell et al, 2004;Millard et al, 2004;Sullivan et al, 2005). A variety of viral photosynthesis genes were identified: for example, psbA, encoding the D1 protein; psbD, encoding the D2 protein; hli genes, encoding the HLIPs (high-light inducible proteins); and the petE and petF genes, encoding the photosynthetic electron transport proteins plastocyanin and ferredoxin, respectively (for recent review, see Clokie and Mann, 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%