| Detailed Information for Phage Cleatunium |
| Discovery Information |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Emily Nightingale |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Rock Hill, SC United States |
| Finding Institution | Winthrop University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 34.94004 N, 81.033083 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Taken from an organic soil sample underneath mulch under a bush on September 11, 2025. Found outside of Little Chapel at Winthrop University. Took around 12 cm of soil for the sample. It was damp and the ambient temperature was 22 degrees Celsius. |
| Naming Notes | My mom made my childhood nickname Cleatus, so the name is derived from that. |
| Sequencing Information |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Jan 28, 2026 |
| Sequencing Facility | Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | Illumina |
| Sequencer Used | Illumina NextSeq 1000 |
| Read Type | Single-end reads |
| Read Length | 100 bp |
| Approximate Shotgun Coverage | 252 |
| Genome length (bp) | 155948 |
| Character of genome ends | Circularly Permuted |
| GC Content | 64.7% |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization |
| Cluster | C |
| Subcluster | C1 |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Lytic |
| Other Cluster Members |
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| Annotating Institution | Winthrop University |
| Annotation Status | Being Annotated (Expected completion by 5/1/2026) |
| Number of Genes | 228 |
| Number of tRNAs | 32 |
| Number of tmRNAs | 1 |
| Has been Phamerated? | Yes |
| Gene List |
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| Publication Info |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info |
| Archiving status |
Not in Pitt Archives |
| Available Files |
| Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
