Mycobacterium phage CatMountain
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| Detailed Information for Phage CatMountain | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Former names | Catmt |
| Found By | Staci Brinkman Loe, Kissaou |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Austin, TX United States |
| Finding Institution | Austin Community College Eastview Campus |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Unknown |
| Isolation Temperature | 31°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 30.347664 N, 97.769584 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Soil collected in the dry creek between Firstview Drive, Dry Creek, and Mesa in 78731 Austin, Texas. TEM images showed the capsid vertical length is approximately 55 nm, and the capsid horizontal length is approximately 60 nm. TEM images showed the tail length is approximately 180–200 nm, consistent with a long, flexible, non-contractile tail typical of siphoviruses. The phage particles displayed no visible contractile sheath or baseplate, further supporting placement within the Siphoviridae family. Plaque assays showed very small (~0.3–0.7 mm), turbid plaques evenly distributed across the lawn, suggesting a temperate lifecycle with efficient lysogen formation. |
| Naming Notes | The area the sample was collected from is called "Cat Mountain" in Northwest Hills Austin, Texas, USA. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | Illumina |
| 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 | Plaque phenotype: tiny, turbid, diffuse Likely lifecycle: temperate Likely family (from TEM): Siphoviridae *Plaque morphology is consistent with clusters such as A, K, L |
| 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 |