THE BAM H1 RESTRICTION SITE IN THE BACTERIOPHAGE T4 CHROMOSOME IS LOCATED IN OR NEAR GENE 8

Geoffrey G. Wilson ¹, Rachael L. Neve ¹, Gordon J. Edlin ¹, and William H. Konigsberg ²

¹ Department of Genetics, Briggs Hall, University of California, Davis, California 95616
² Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

Bacteriophage T4 cytosine-containing DNA is cleaved at a single site by the restriction endonuclease, Bam H1. The site lies within the late region of the T4 genome, close to, or within, gene 8, one of the structural genes of the phage particle baseplate.