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    A proteomic approach to the identification of the major virion structural proteins of the marine cyanomyovirus S-PM2

    Clokie, M.R.J. and Thalassinos, Konstantinos and Boulanger, P. and Slade, S.E. and Stoilova-McPhie, S. and Cane, M. and Scrivens, J.H. and Mann, N.H. (2008) A proteomic approach to the identification of the major virion structural proteins of the marine cyanomyovirus S-PM2. Microbiology 154 (6), pp. 1775-1782. ISSN 1350-0872.

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    Abstract

    In this study, an MS-based proteomics approach to characterizing the virion structural proteins of the novel marine ‘photosynthetic’ phage S-PM2 is presented. The virus infects ecologically important cyanobacteria of the genus Synechococcus that make a substantial contribution to primary production in the oceans. The S-PM2 genome encodes 236 ORFs, some of which exhibit similarity to known phage virion structural proteins, but the majority (54 %) show no detectable homology to known proteins from other organisms. Using public and in-house bioinformatics tools the proteome of S-PM2 was predicted and a database compatible with MS-based search engines was constructed. S-PM2 virion proteins were resolved by SDS-PAGE, excised, tryptically digested and analysed by LC-ESI-MS/MS. The resulting MS data were searched against the database. A parallel control study was undertaken on the well-characterized coliphage T4 in order to assess the sensitivity and efficiency of this approach. In total, 11 of the 15 S-PM2 proteins, predicted to be virion proteins by bioinformatics approaches, were confirmed as such, together with the identification of a further 12 novel structural proteins. In the case of T4, 24 of the 39 known virion structural proteins were identified, including the major tail-fibre proteins. This approach has wide-ranging applicability and can be applied to any novel organism whose genome encodes ORFs with few detectable homologies in the public databases.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Structural Molecular Biology, Institute of (ISMB)
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 04 Feb 2014 14:39
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:09
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/9177

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