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Bacteriophage R1-37 was isolated based on its ability to infect strain YeO3-R1, a virulence-plasmid-cured O antigen-negative derivative of serotype O : 3. In this study, the phage receptor was found to be a structure in the outer core hexasaccharide of O : 3 LPS. The phage receptor was present in the outer core of strains of many other serotypes, but also in some strains. Surprisingly, the receptor structure resided in the O antigen of O : 9. Electron microscopy demonstrated that R1-37 particles have an icosahedral head of 88 nm, a short neck of 10 nm, a long contractile tail of 236 nm, and tail fibres of at least 86 nm. This implies that the phage belongs to the order and the family in the ICTV (International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses) classification. R1-37 was found to have a lytic life cycle, with eclipse and latent periods of 40 and 50 min, respectively, and a burst size of ∼80 p.f.u. per infected cell. Restriction digestions and PFGE showed that the R1-37 genome was dsDNA and ∼270 kb in size. Enzymically hydrolysed DNA was subjected to HPLC-MS/MS analysis, which demonstrated that the R1-37 genome is composed of DNA in which thymidine (T) is >99 % replaced by deoxyuridine (dU). The only organisms known to have similar DNA are the -specific bacteriophages PBS1 and PBS2. N-terminal amino acid sequences of four major structural proteins did not show any similarity to (viral) protein sequences in databases, indicating that close relatives of R1-37 have not yet been characterized. Genes for two of the structural proteins, p24 and p46, were identified from the partially sequenced R1-37 genome.

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