Draft Genome Sequence of the Lytic Salmonella Phage OSY-STA, Which Infects Multiple Salmonella Serovars

Abstract

Bacteriophage OSY-STA is a new anti-Salmonella phage that was isolated from a chicken farm in Ohio. It is a promising candidate for food safety applications, considering its efficiency in infecting several Salmonella enterica serovars. The current work presents its genomic characteristics. Salmonella phage OSY-STA has a 111,039-bp genome and 166 open reading frames.

BtuB-Dependent Infection of the T5-like Yersinia Phage ϕR2-01

“…In addition to T5, we identified several other closely related viruses based on similarity searches (Table S4), including among others the siphophage Stitch [56], Salmonella phage Shivani [57], Escherichia phage vB_EcoS_FFH1 [58], Salmonella phage OSY-STA [59], Salmonella phage Seabear [60], Salmonella phage Seafire [61], Salmonella phage STG2 [62], In total, 117 of the 154 predicted φR2-01 genes have unique counterparts in T5 (ten genes in φR2-01 are pairwise similar to five genes in T5, excluding the ones repeated in the terminal repeat region) and, in contrast, 32 of the φR2-01 genes are missing in T5 (Table S3). Importantly, all the morphological T5 genes seem to be conserved in φR2-01 (Table S3) [17,55].…”

“…In addition to T5, we identified several other closely related viruses based on similarity searches (Table S4), including among others the siphophage Stitch [56], Salmonella phage Shivani [57], Escherichia phage vB_EcoS_FFH1 [58], Salmonella phage OSY-STA [59], Salmonella phage Seabear [60], Salmonella phage Seafire [61], Salmonella phage STG2 [62], and Escherichia phage phiLLS [63]. The similarity between bacteriophage T5, AFKV33, EPS7, and SPC35 has been demonstrated before [64], as well as between DT57C and T5 [65].…”