Mycobacterium phage Nguta
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| Detailed Information for Phage Nguta | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Yanga Mdleleni |
| Year Found | 2013 |
| Location Found | Durban, South Africa |
| Finding Institution | University of Kwazulu-Natal |
| Program | Mycobacterial Genetics Course, Durban, South Africa |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | 29.8587 S, 31.0218 E Map |
| Discovery Notes | Discovered next to the biology building glass house garden at ukzn. I dug about 3-4cm deep into the soil inorder to get a moist soil sample. This phage showed slow growth at first and it was very easy to dicover. incubation period was not longer than 24hours before the plques were formed. |
| Naming Notes | Named after my great grandmother's clan name, she is the most important person to me. |
| 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 | large plaques, plaques were clear and entire, covering about half the plate. This implied that the phage had lysed about half the number of cells observed in the plate. |
| 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 |