Group Group I (dsDNA) Subfamily Peduovirinae Rank Species | Family Myoviridae Genus P2likevirus Order Caudovirales | |
Similar Caudovirales, T3 phage, Podoviridae, Myoviridae, Corticovirus | ||
Yersinia phage L-413C is a virus of the family Myoviridae, genus P2likevirus.
As a member of the group I of the Baltimore classification, Yersinia phage L-413C 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 Yersinia phage L-413C 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.
The protein H of the tail fiber of Yersinia phage L-413C permits the differentiation between Yersinia pestis and Y. pseudotuberculosis.