Isolation and characterization of an extremely long tail Thermus bacteriophage from Tengchong hot springs in China

• Published in: Journal of Basic Microbiology
• Main Authors: Lin, Lianbing, Hong, Wei, Ji, Xiuling, Han, Jian, Huang, Li, Wei, Yunlin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2010
• Subjects: Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jobm.201000116; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjobm.201000116; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jobm.201000116

Abstract Thermus strains are regarded as models to investigate the mechanism of thermostability of thermophiles, and phages from Thermus are particularly interesting because of their way to regulate gene expression. In this research, a Thermus bacteriophage named TSP4 ( Thermus Siphoviridae phage) w...