Mycobacterium phage PicktownAL
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| Detailed Information for Phage PicktownAL | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Former names | PAL1 |
| Found By | Gayle Coggins |
| Year Found | 2013 |
| Location Found | Pickerington, OH USA |
| Finding Institution | The Ohio State University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | 39.929 N, 82.782 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | PAL was discovered under mulch outside a chiropractic office. The weather was 93*F and sunny. PAL has a tendency to be a little "shy" and usually takes 48 hours for plaque formation. In high concentrations PAL does not complete lyse the host bacterium, instead there appears to be the formation of a few turbid plaques. |
| Naming Notes | PAL is an acronym for Pickering ActiveLife. Pickerington being the city the phage was found in and ActiveLife being the name of the chiropractors office. |
| 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 | Plaque formation was consistently between 0.1-0.2 cm, circular, and slightly turbid. |
| 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 | 2.2x10^8 |
| Date of SEA Lysate Titering | Oct 30, 2013 |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 3 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | F3 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |