Genome Sequences of Mycobacteriophages Luchador and Nerujay

Welkin H Pope; Taha Ahmed; Marissa K Drobitch; David R Early; Soukaina Eljamri; Naomi S Kasturiarachi; Emily F Klonicki; Daniel T Manjooran; Aífe N Ní Chochlain; Andrew O Puglionesi; Vinod Rajakumar; Katherine A Shindle; Mai T Tran; Bryony R Brown; Bryce M Churilla; Karen L Cohen; Kellyn E Wilkes; Sarah R Grubb; Marcie H Warner; Charles A Bowman; Daniel A Russell; Graham F Hatfull

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00599-15

Genome Sequences of Mycobacteriophages Luchador and Nerujay

Genome Announc. 2015 Jun 18;3(3):e00599-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00599-15.

Authors

Welkin H Pope¹, Taha Ahmed², Marissa K Drobitch², David R Early², Soukaina Eljamri², Naomi S Kasturiarachi², Emily F Klonicki², Daniel T Manjooran², Aífe N Ní Chochlain², Andrew O Puglionesi², Vinod Rajakumar², Katherine A Shindle², Mai T Tran², Bryony R Brown², Bryce M Churilla², Karen L Cohen², Kellyn E Wilkes², Sarah R Grubb², Marcie H Warner², Charles A Bowman², Daniel A Russell², Graham F Hatfull²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA welkin@pitt.edu.
² Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Abstract

Luchador and Nerujay are two newly isolated mycobacteriophages recovered from soil samples using Mycobacterium smegmatis. Their genomes are 53,387 bp and 53,455 bp long and have 96 and 97 predicted open reading frames, respectively. Nerujay is related to subcluster A1 phages, and Luchador represents a new subcluster, A14.