Yersinia phage L-413C

Yersinia phage L-413C
Virus classification
Group: Group I (dsDNA)
Order: Caudovirales
Family: Myoviridae
Subfamily: Peduovirinae
Genus: P2likevirus
Species: Yersinia phage L-413C

Yersinia phage L-413C is a virus of the family Myoviridae, genus P2likevirus.[1][2]

As a member of the group I of the Baltimore classification, Yersinia phage L-413C is a dsDNA viruses. All the Myoviridae family members share a nonenveloped morphology consisting of a head and a tail separated by a neck. Its genome is linear. The propagation of the virions includes the attaching to a host cell (a bacterium, as Yersinia phage L-413C is a bacteriophage) and the injection of the double stranded DNA; the host transcribes and translates it to manufacture new particles. To replicate its genetic content requires host cell DNA polymerases and, hence, the process is highly dependent on the cell cycle.[3]

The protein H of the tail fiber of Yersinia phage L-413C permits the differentiation between Yersinia pestis and Y. pseudotuberculosis.[4]

References

  1. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) (2011). "Master Species List of 2011, version 2". Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  2. Adams, MJ; Carstens, EB (2012). "Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2012)". Archives of Virology. 157 (7): 1411–22. doi:10.1007/s00705-012-1299-6. PMID 22481600.
  3. Baltimore, D (1971). "Expression of animal virus genomes". Bacteriological reviews. 35 (3): 235–41. PMC 378387Freely accessible. PMID 4329869.
  4. Garcia, E; Chain, P; Elliott, JM; Bobrov, AG; Motin, VL; Kirillina, O; Lao, V; Calendar, R; Filippov, AA (2008). "Molecular characterization of L-413C, a P2-related plague diagnostic bacteriophage". Virology. 372 (1): 85–96. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2007.10.032. PMID 18045639.


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