Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae – bacteriophage
combination from the caecal effluent of a healthy woman
combination from the caecal effluent of a healthy woman
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Abstract
A sample of caecal effluent was obtained from a female patient who had undergone a routine colonoscopic examination. Bacteria were isolated anaerobically from the sample, and screened against the remaining filtered caecal effluent in an attempt to isolate bacteriophages (phages). A lytic phage, named KLPN1, was isolated on a strain identified as Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae (capsular type K2, rmpA+). This Siphoviridae phage presents a rosette-like tail tip and exhibits depolymerase activity, as demonstrated by the formation of plaque-surrounding haloes that increased in size over the course of incubation. When screened against a panel of clinical isolates of K. pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae, phage KLPN1 was shown to infect and lyse capsular type K2 strains, though it did not exhibit depolymerase activity on such hosts. The genome of KLPN1 was determined to be 49,037 bp (50.53 %GC) in length, encompassing 73 predicted ORFs, of which 23 represented genes associated with structure, host recognition, packaging, DNA replication and cell lysis. On the basis of sequence analyses, phages KLPN1 (GenBank: KR262148) and 1513 (a member of the family Siphoviridae, GenBank: KP658157) were found to be two new members of the genus “Kp36likevirus.”
Date Issued
2015-07-28
Date Acceptance
2015-06-09
Citation
PeerJ, 2015, 3
ISSN
2167-8359
Publisher
PeerJ
Journal / Book Title
PeerJ
Volume
3
Copyright Statement
© 2015 Hoyles et al.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Open Government License.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Open Government License.
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Published
Article Number
e1061