Group Group I (dsDNA) Family Myoviridae Genus P2likevirus | Order Caudovirales Subfamily Peduovirinae Rank Species | |
Similar Podoviridae, Myoviridae, Caudovirales, Siphoviridae, Ralstonia | ||
Ralstonia phage RSA1 is a virus of the family Myoviridae, genus P2likevirus.
As a member of the group I of the Baltimore classification, Ralstonia phage RSA1 is a dsDNA viruses. All the Myoviridae family members share a nonenveloped morphology consisting of a head and a tail separated by a neck. Its genome is linear. The propagation of the virions includes the attaching to a host cell (a bacterium, as Ralstonia phage RSA1 is a bacteriophage) and the injection of the double stranded DNA; the host transcribes and translates it to manufacture new particles. To replicate its genetic content requires host cell DNA polymerases and, hence, the process is highly dependent on the cell cycle.
Its genome is 38,760 base pairs long with 65.3% of GC content and 5′-extruding cohesive ends; contains 51 open reading frames.