title: Bacteriophage ϕMAM1, a viunalikevirus, is a broad-host-range, high-efficiency generalized transducer that infects environmental and clinical isolates of the enterobacterial genera Serratia and Kluyvera.
abstract: Members of the enterobacterial genus Serratia are ecologically widespread, and some strains are opportunistic human pathogens. Bacteriophage ϕMAM1 was isolated on Serratia plymuthica A153, a biocontrol rhizosphere strain that produces the potently bioactive antifungal and anticancer haterumalide oocydin A. The ϕMAM1 phage is a generalized transducing phage that infects multiple environmental and clinical isolates of Serratia spp. and a rhizosphere strain of Kluyvera cryocrescens. Electron microscopy allowed classification of ϕMAM1 in the family Myoviridae. Bacteriophage ϕMAM1 is virulent, uses capsular polysaccharides as a receptor, and can transduce chromosomal markers at frequencies of up to 7 × 10(-6) transductants per PFU. We also demonstrated transduction of the complete 77-kb oocydin A gene cluster and heterogeneric transduction of a plasmid carrying a type III toxin-antitoxin system. These results support the notion of the potential ecological importance of transducing phages in the acquisition of genes by horizontal gene transfer. Phylogenetic analyses grouped ϕMAM1 within the ViI-like bacteriophages, and genomic analyses revealed that the major differences between ϕMAM1 and other ViI-like phages arise in a region encoding the host recognition determinants. Our results predict that the wider genus of ViI-like phages could be efficient transducing phages, and this possibility has obvious implications for the ecology of horizontal gene transfer, bacterial functional genomics, and synthetic biology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Matilla
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom gpcs2@cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: George P C
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Salmond
mesh_terms: D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D016679:Genome, Viral; D058507:Host Specificity; D006801:Humans; D044086:Kluyvera / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000821:virology*; D007783:Lactones; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D005810:Multigene Family; D009154:Mutation; D017900:Myoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D010802:Phylogeny; D010957:Plasmids; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D058441:Rhizosphere; D012705:Serratia / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000821:virology*; D014161:Transduction, Genetic; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D007783:Lactones; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins; C403892:oocydin A
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