Genome sequence of WestPM, a phage infecting Microbacterium foliorum isolated from beach environmental samples

Charles J West; Brittany C Yencho; Andrew J Brown; Conor R Flannigan; Hui-Min Chung

doi:10.17912/micropub.biology.001395

Genome sequence of WestPM, a phage infecting Microbacterium foliorum isolated from beach environmental samples

MicroPubl Biol. 2025 Jan 4:2025:10.17912/micropub.biology.001395. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001395. eCollection 2025.

Authors

Charles J West^{1

2}, Brittany C Yencho^{3

2}, Andrew J Brown^{4

2}, Conor R Flannigan^{5

2}, Hui-Min Chung²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
² Department of Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL.
³ School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
⁴ United States Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Breeze, FL.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.

Abstract

Bacteriophage WestPM is a siphoviral-like phage infecting Microbacterium foliorum isolated from environmental samples collected on Pensacola Beach, FL. The genome of this phage is 39,693 bp long and contains 59 predicted protein-coding genes and zero tRNA genes. Based on gene content similarity, WestPM is grouped in the actinobacteriophage EA11 subcluster.

Grants and funding

The Office of Undergraduate Research at UWF provided undergraduate research awards and traveling awards to Andrew Brown, Conor Flannigan, Charles West, and Brittany Yencho. Hui-Min Chung was supported by the NSF grant 1711842.