Genome Sequence of Gordonia Phage BetterKatz

Welkin H Pope; Emily N Berryman; Kaitlyn M Forrest; Lilliana McHale; Anthony T Wertz; Zenas Zhuang; Naomi S Kasturiarachi; Catherine A Pressimone; Johnathon G Schiebel; Emily C Furbee; Sarah R Grubb; Marcie H Warner; Matthew T Montgomery; Rebecca A Garlena; Daniel A Russell; Deborah Jacobs-Sera; Graham F Hatfull

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00590-16

Genome Sequence of Gordonia Phage BetterKatz

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 11;4(4):e00590-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00590-16.

Authors

Welkin H Pope¹, Emily N Berryman², Kaitlyn M Forrest², Lilliana McHale², Anthony T Wertz², Zenas Zhuang², Naomi S Kasturiarachi², Catherine A Pressimone², Johnathon G Schiebel², Emily C Furbee², Sarah R Grubb², Marcie H Warner², Matthew T Montgomery², Rebecca A Garlena², Daniel A Russell², Deborah Jacobs-Sera², 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

BetterKatz is a bacteriophage isolated from a soil sample collected in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania using the host Gordonia terrae 3612. BetterKatz's genome is 50,636 bp long and contains 75 predicted protein-coding genes, 35 of which have been assigned putative functions. BetterKatz is not closely related to other sequenced Gordonia phages.

Grants and funding

R01 GM116884/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States