Reclassification of the first Bacillus tropicus phage calls for reclassification of other Bacillus temperate phages previously designated as plasmids.

ABSTRACT: Bacillus tropicus is a recently identified subspecies of the Bacillus cereus group of bacteria that have been shown to possess genes associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and identified as the causative agent for anthrax-like disease in Chinese soft-shelled turtles. In addition, B. tropicus has demonstrated great potential in the fields of bioremediation and bioconversion. This article describes the comparative genomics of a Bacillus phage vB_Btc-RBClinn15 (referred to as RBClin15) infecting the recently identified B. tropicus AOA-CPS1. RBClin15 is a temperate phage with a putative parABS partitioning system as well as an arbitrium system, which are presumed to enable extrachromosomal genome maintenance and regulate the lysis/lysogeny switch, respectively. The temperate phage RBCl

SUBMITTER: Milase RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11526630 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature