Mycobacteriophage MP2445 exhibits siphovirus morphology and infects Mycobacterium smegmatis, Mycobacterium bovis BCG, and Mycobacterium fortuitum. Its genome is 50,711 bp in length, has a GC content of 63.34%, and contains 78 protein-coding sequences and one tRNA. MP2445 shares the highest nucleotide identity with phages in the A2 subcluster.
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