Looking for a phage that can infect the "green E. coli." Would like to do some studies of co-existence in a system amenable to genetic modification. Have tried isolating from nearby lakes (Michigan) but with no luck.
Check with Martha Clokie (http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/iii/people/dr-martha-clokie)
Marine cyanobacteria are subject to infection by cyanophages, many of which also contain a single psbA copy. The Chisholm laboratory (MIT, WHOI) has shown that following infection of Prochlorococcus MED4
by the cyanophage P-SSP7, the concentration of phage-encoded D1 increases during the infection period, while the concentration of host-encoded D1 decreases.
The phage AS-1 infects Anacystis nidulans aka Synechococcus PCC 7942 amongst other things. I think there are some others . The phage were isolated in the 1970s when PCC7942 was more called Anacystis nidulans R2. As this is freshwater cyano less work has been done on there cyanophage recently compared to marine Synechoccocus.
Steve Wilhelm has some nice work recently showing cross infection of marine cyanobacteria by phages from the Great Lakes (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489316/). Have not seen anything in particular in the literature for Syn PCC7942 though.
attached here with the list of isolated phages and their Synechococcus strains, and not found any cyanophage isolated from Synechococcus PCC 7942. However, i not included the AS-1.
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