| Literature DB >> 25500185 |
Chantal Hulo1, Patrick Masson1, Philippe Le Mercier1, Ariane Toussaint2.
Abstract
Enterobacteriophage Mu is the best studied and paradigm member of the transposable phages. Mu-encoded proteins have been annotated in detail in UniProtKB and linked to a controlled vocabulary describing the various steps involved in the phage lytic and lysogenic cycles. Transposable phages are ubiquitous temperate bacterial viruses with a dsDNA linear genome. Twenty-six of them, that infect α, β and γ-proteobacteria, have been sequenced. Their conserved properties are described. Based on these characteristics, we propose a reorganization of the Caudovirales, to allow for the inclusion of a "Saltoviridae" family and two newly proposed subfamilies, the "Myosaltovirinae" and "Siphosaltovirinae". The latter could temporarily be included in the existing Myoviridae and Siphoviridae families.Entities:
Keywords: Caudovirales; Phage protein annotation; Phage taxonomy; “Myosaltovirinae”; “Saltoviridae”; “Siphosaltovirinae”
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25500185 DOI： 10.1016/j.virol.2014.10.009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virology ISSN： 0042-6822 Impact factor: 3.616