Mycobacterium phage CaptainAmerica
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| Detailed Information for Phage CaptainAmerica | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Brynna Christy and Cullen Bryant |
| Year Found | 2015 |
| Location Found | Spokane, WA USA |
| Finding Institution | Gonzaga University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | 47.668333 N, 117.406944 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | We discovered a phage outside of St. Aloysius Church in the dirt. The dirt was soft and wet without rocks. This phage grows at a remarkable rate, with occasionally eating the whole bacterial plate within a week. We discovered that in order to further cultivate our phage, we needed to work faster than the average group. We also discovered that our phage grows at 37 degrees Celsius which is body temperature. Our phage is not a K cluster phage. |
| Naming Notes | This phage is kind of like a super phage in that it grows very fast and is able to take over a plate of bacteria in less than a week. |
| 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 |
| Plaque Notes | capsid- 80 nm tail- 240 nm total- 320 nm |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Archived |
| SEA Lysate Titer | 4.0 x 10^10 pfu/mL |
| Date of SEA Lysate Titering | Oct 22, 2015 |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 29 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | B3 |