HER 240


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Name
pilHα
Morphotype
E1
Family
?1
Other designations
Electron Micrograph
Image
Image of phage under microscope
Image description
Magnification: 297,000X
Bar: 50 nm
Staining: PTB
Characteristics
Veiled plaques, 0.1 to 1mm.
Adsorbs to IncHI and IncHII plasmid-coded pili.
Preparations are rich in broken pili with adsorbed phages.
Propagating strain : *E. coli* K12 containing R27::TnlacZ (resistant to kanamycin and tetracycline)
Genomic sequence
No
Bacterial hosts
Reference
Coetzee, J.N., D.E. Bradley, J. Fleming, L. du Toit, V.M. Hughes, and R.W. Hedges. 1985. Phage pilH?: a phage which adsorbs to IncHI and IncHII plasmid-coded pili. J. Gen. Microbiol. 131:1115-1121.
History
Received from
Date
(replacement phage)
Dr Diane E. Taylor
University of Alberta
Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious diseases
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H7
07-01-1993
Received from
Date
J.N. Coetzee
Institute for Pathology
P.O. Box 2034
Pretoria 0001
South Africa
27-03-1987
Isolated by
Date
J.N. Coetzee
Pretoria, South Africa
early 1980ʼs
Source
Sewage
Updated at
2024-01-17