Table 1 Summary of physical dimensions and genomic characteristics of six phiCbK-like bacteriophages of C. crescentus
From: The Caulobacter crescentus phage phiCbK: genomics of a canonical phage
Feature | Phage isolate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
phiCbk | Magneto | Swift | Kanma | Rogue | Colossus | |
Head length (nm)a | 205 (±2) | 211 (±3) | 219 (±6) | 205 (±3) | 205 (±9) | 292 (±4) |
Head width (nm)a | 56 (±2) | 58 (±2) | 63 (±2) | 61 (±2) | 60 (±1) | 65 (±5) |
Tail length (nm)a | 300 (±8) | 293 (±5) | 295 (±4) | 314 (±10) | 319 (±12) | 336 (±9) |
Unit genome (bp) | 205,423 | 208,983 | 209,245 | 211,574 | 213,399 | 279,967 |
Terminal repeat (bp) | 10,287 | 9,946 | 9,971 | 10,254 | 10,321 | ~16,700b |
GC content | 66.2% | 66.6% | 66.1% | 66.2% | 66.6% | 62.2% |
No. protein-coding genes | 318 | 328 | 325 | 333 | 331 | 448 |
No. unique genesc | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 61 | 307 |
No. tRNA genes | 26 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 23 | 28 |