Enterobacteria phage P4

Enterobacteria phage P4
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Duplodnaviria
Kingdom: Heunggongvirae
Phylum: Uroviricota
Class: Caudoviricetes
Family: Peduoviridae
Genus: Peduovirus
Species:
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Enterobacteria phage P4

Enterobacteria phage P4 (also known as satellite phage P4) is a temperate bacteriophage strain of species Escherichia virus P2 within genus Peduovirus (formerly P2-like viruses, P2virus, and P2likevirus), subfamily Peduovirinae, family Myoviridae.[1] It is a satellite virus, requiring P2-related helper phage to grow lytically.

  1. ^ Pruss, G; Goldstein, RN; Calendar, R (June 1974). "In vitro packaging of satellite phage P4 DNA". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 71 (6): 2367–71. Bibcode:1974PNAS...71.2367P. doi:10.1073/pnas.71.6.2367. PMC 388456. PMID 4526304.