Bacteriophage T4 RNA ligase is gene 63 product, the protein that promotes tail fiber attachment to the baseplate.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on August 01, 1977

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T J Snopek, W B Wood, M P Conley, P Chen, N R Cozzarelli

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