Isolation and characterization of a cyanophage infecting the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1239-1247

  Yoshida, Takashi ^a   Takashima, Yukari ^a   Tomaru, Yuji ^b   Shirai, Yoko ^b   Takao, Yoshitake ^c   Hiroishi, Shingo ^a   Nagasaki, Keizo ^b  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN FISHERIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; TOXICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CYANOBACTERIUM MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; CYANOPHAGES; HELICAL SYMMETRY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEASE; NUCLEASE BAL31; NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE ALPHA; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE BETA; SHEATH PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

CYANOBACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CYANOPHAGE; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME SIZE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; FRESH WATER; GENOME, VIRAL; JAPAN; MICROCYSTIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHYLOGENY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33144484037     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.2.1239-1247.2006     Document Type: Article

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