Mycobacterium phage Seppuku
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| Detailed Information for Phage Seppuku | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Gilbert Onu |
| Year Found | 2016 |
| Location Found | Providence, RI USA |
| Finding Institution | Brown University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | Unavailable |
| Discovery Notes | From my professor's vegetable garden. |
| Naming Notes | During WWII, Japanese soldiers fought to the death, committing seppuku to avoid being captured alive and refusing to even risk revealing their secrets. My phage seemed especially resistant to revealing itself. A nanodrop test failed due to low titer, and plaques even disappeared during one series of plating. In spite of this, I enjoyed the challenge of working with this phage, and with further work, it will surely lose the war. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | Unclustered |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Annotating Institution | Unknown or unassigned |
| Annotation Status | Not sequenced |
| Morphotype | Siphoviridae |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Not in Pitt Archives |