Complete genome of the broad-host-range Erwinia amylovora phage φEa21-4 and its relationship to Salmonella phage Felix O1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2139-2147

  Lehman, Susan M ^a,d   Kropinski, Andrew M ^b   Castle, Alan J ^a   Svircev, Antonet M ^c  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICODON LOOPS; CAPSID PROTEINS; COMPLETE GENOMES; ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GC CONTENTS; GENES CODING; GENOME SEQUENCES; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATIONS; N-TERMINAL SEQUENCING; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PRINCIPLE COMPONENTS; PUTATIVE PROTEINS; SALVAGE PATHWAYS; STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT ANALYSIS; TRNA GENES; UNIQUE SEQUENCES;

DESORPTION; PROTEINS;

GENES;

CAPSID PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; DESORPTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOST RANGE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PROTEIN; RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOMICS; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, VIRAL; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENOME, VIRAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, TRANSFER; SALMONELLA PHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNTENY; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ERWINIA PYRIFOLIAE; MIRIDAE; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; SALMONELLA;

EID: 63849311464     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02352-08     Document Type: Article

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