Mycobacterium phage Saatara
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| Detailed Information for Phage Saatara | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Former names | Sa2tara |
| Found By | Saachi Mehra |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| 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? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 25°C |
| GPS Coordinates | Unavailable |
| Discovery Notes | Sample collected by Saachi Mehra Data of collection 8-27-2024 Sample type Soil ( full of wood chips and bugs) Location Descriptor Near a tree's roots in Hardin Garden General Location WU, Rockhill, SC Specific Location 87°E 34°56' 14N 81° 1'51W Sample depth 2 inches Ambient Temperature 25°C; Hot and sunny afternoon 1:30pm |
| Naming Notes | Saatara is a mix of the first three letters of my name, Saa and tara. My name is unique to me because it would be spelled with only one a, most people who have this name are in India and even in Japan! In India my name would commonly be spelled with only one "a" so I wanted to incorporate this element. The word "Tara" is a Hindia word and it is derived from Sanskrit which means "star". previously named S2aTara, this name can be pronounced as "saahh taraa" or now know as Saatara. When this phage had its first fully webbed plate it was almost cleared and it looked like a bunch of stars or taras. Thus the name SaaTara. |
| 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 | This phage had 2 different morphologies, a big and a small one. Since it was more effective to work on the smaller morphology, it was used for further experimentation and research. This morphology appeared to be a very small circle. |
| 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 |
| SEA Lysate Titer | 1.33X10^10 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
