Isolation and genomic characterization of Psychrobacillus isolate L3 and bacteriophage Spoks: a new phage-host pair from Antarctic soil.

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Background

Most habitats on Earth house unfathomable microbial diversity, yet much of it remains uncultured. The same applies to temperate phages, most of which documented to date are predicted purely in silico from the prophage-like genomic regions of the bacteria, lacking any experimental evidence of their functional integrity (e.g., the ability to undergo lytic replication). Hard-to-access parts of our planet with unique environments serve as especially promising places to collect samples for the isolation of novel microbes highly divergent from those isolated thus far. Antarctica, a continent mostly covered by a thick ice sheet, is one such area of our planet rife with novel microbiological entities. In this study, we aimed to isolate and characterize a novel culturable phage-h

SUBMITTER: Zrelovs N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12007190 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature