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. 2021 Aug;129(8):461-469.
doi: 10.1111/apm.13138. Epub 2021 Jun 1.

Characterization of a lytic EBP bacteriophage with large size genome against Enterobacter cloacae

Muhammad Asif  1   2 , Hafsa Naseem  1 , Iqbal Ahmad Alvi  1   3 , Abdul Basit  1 , Shafiq-Ur- Rehman  1
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Characterization of a lytic EBP bacteriophage with large size genome against Enterobacter cloacae

Muhammad Asif et al. APMIS. 2021 Aug.

Abstract

Enterobacter cloacae (E. cloacae) is an emerging nosocomial pathogen that had acquired antibiotic resistance against multiple classes of antibiotics. The current study was aimed to isolate and characterize lytic bacteriophage against E. cloacae. The bacteriophage EBP was isolated from a sewage water sample using E. cloacae as a host strain by double-layer agar technique. EBP was found stabile at a wide range of temperatures (25, 37, 60, and 80°C) and pH (5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) with antibacterial activity up to 24 h of infection. The latent period of EBP was 20 min with a burst size of 252 phages per cell. It showed a narrow host range and infected 12/21 (57%) isolates of E. cloacae tested. It has helical symmetry with a head size of 105 and 120 nm long tail with contractile sheath. The EBP has 179.1 kb long double-stranded DNA genome with 44.8% GC content. Majority of identified ORFs (187/281) were encoding putative proteins with unknown function. Necessary replication enzymes, structural proteins, and lytic enzymes were detected in the genome of EBP. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that EBP closely resembles with Coronobacter phage vB_CsaM_IeN, vB_CsaM_IeE, vB_CsaM_IeB, and Citrobacter phage Margaery. Based on electron microscopy and molecular characterization, EBP was classified as a Myoviridae phage.

Keywords: Enterobacter cloacae; Bacteriophage; bacteriophage characterization; genome analysis; phage therapy.

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