Mycobacterium phage Toggle
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| Detailed Information for Phage Toggle | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | June Jung, Grace Barker |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | Boulder, CO United States |
| Finding Institution | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.008795 N, 105.268811 E Map |
| Discovery Notes | It is a temperate phage. The soil sample with the phage in it was found next to a trashcan in the sun; but in slightly damp soil. |
| Naming Notes | We named this phage "Toggle" because of its ability as a temperate phage to switch or 'toggle' essentially from a lytic cycle to a lysogenic cycle. |
| 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 | The morphology of the plaques look large with a diameter of ~0.5 and with slim halos of partially lysed bacteria surrounding them. |
| 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 |
| SEA Lysate Titer | 4.6 x 10^9 pfu/mL |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |
