Biology:Salmonella Fels-2

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Salmonella Fels-2
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Group I (dsDNA)
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Salmonella Fels-2

Salmonella Fels-2 is a virus of the family Myoviridae, genus P2likevirus.[1][2]

As a member of the group I of the Baltimore classification, Salmonella Fels-2 is a dsDNA viruses. All the family Myoviridae members share a nonenveloped morphology consisting of a head and a tail separated by a neck. Its genome is linear. The propagation of the virions includes the attaching to a host cell (a bacterium, as Salmonella Fels-2 is a bacteriophage) and the injection of the double stranded DNA; the host transcribes and translates it to manufacture new particles. To replicate its genetic content requires host cell DNA polymerases and, hence, the process is highly dependent on the cell cycle.[3]

References

  1. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) (2011). "Master Species List of 2011, version 2". http://talk.ictvonline.org/files/ictv_documents/m/msl/4090.aspx. Retrieved 15 October 2012. 
  2. Adams, MJ; Carstens, EB (2012). "Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2012)". Archives of Virology 157 (7): 1411–22. doi:10.1007/s00705-012-1299-6. PMID 22481600. 
  3. Baltimore, D (1971). "Expression of animal virus genomes". Bacteriological Reviews 35 (3): 235–41. PMID 4329869.