title: Thermus thermophilus bacteriophage phiYS40 genome and proteomic characterization of virions.
abstract: We determined the sequence of the 152,372 bp genome of phiYS40, a lytic tailed bacteriophage of Thermus thermophilus. The genome contains 170 putative open reading frames and three tRNA genes. Functions for 25% of phiYS40 gene products were predicted on the basis of similarity to proteins of known function from diverse phages and bacteria. phiYS40 encodes a cluster of proteins involved in nucleotide salvage, such as flavin-dependent thymidylate synthase, thymidylate kinase, ribonucleotide reductase, and deoxycytidylate deaminase, and in DNA replication, such as DNA primase, helicase, type A DNA polymerase, and predicted terminal protein involved in initiation of DNA synthesis. The structural genes of phiYS40, most of which have no similarity to sequences in public databases, were identified by mass spectrometric analysis of purified virions. Various phiYS40 proteins have different phylogenetic neighbors, including myovirus, podovirus, and siphovirus gene products, bacterial genes and, in one case, a dUTPase from a eukaryotic virus. phiYS40 has apparently arisen through multiple acts of recombination between different phage genomes as well as through acquisition of bacterial genes.
authors.affiliation: Waksman Institute for Microbiology, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
authors.forename: Tatyana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Naryshkina
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Florens
authors.forename: Selene K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Swanson
authors.forename: Andrey R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Pavlov
authors.forename: Nadejda V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Pavlova
authors.forename: Ross
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Inman
authors.forename: Leonid
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Minakhin
authors.forename: Sergei A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Kozyavkin
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Washburn
authors.forename: Arcady
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mushegian
authors.forename: Konstantin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Severinov
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000235:genetics*; D004261:DNA Replication; D016679:Genome, Viral; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D040901:Proteomics; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D016963:Thermus thermophilus / Q000821:virology*; D014764:Viral Proteins; D014771:Virion / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D014764:Viral Proteins; D012343:RNA, Transfer