Features
The T4 phage has some unique features, such as:
- Eukaryote-like introns
- High speed DNA copying mechanism, with only 1 error in 300 copies
- Special DNA repair mechanisms
- It infects E. coli O157:H7
- genome terminally redundant
- genome first replicated as a unit, and then several genomic units are recombined end-to-end to form a concatemer. When packaged, the concatemer is cut at unspecific positions but of same length, leading to several genomes that represent Circular permutations of the original.
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