We present clinical and cytogenetic data on a 7-year-old female child with partial trisomy for 9p22→9pter as a result of a maternal balanced reciprocal translocation. Her karyotype was ascertained as 46,XX,dec(4)t(4;9)(q35; p22)mat. The father had a normal karyotype, while the mother had an apparently balanced translocation involving chromosomes 4 and 9 [46,XX,t(4;9)(q35;p22)]. This case will b...

The tail of the bacteriophage P22 is composed of multiple protein components and integrates various biological functions that are crucial to the assembly and infection of the phage. The three-dimensional structure of the P22 tail machine determined by electron cryo-microscopy and image reconstruction reveals how the five types of polypeptides present as 51 subunits are organized into this molec...

A 4-month-old Sri Lankan male child case with a de novo terminal deletion in the p22→pter region of chromosome 9 is described. The child presented with craniofacial dysmorphism, developmental delay, and congenital malformations in agreement with the consensus phenotype. A distinctive feature observed in this child was complete collapse of the left lung due to malformation of lung tissue. Cytoge...

NADPH oxidase cytochrome b558 consists of two subunits, gp91-phox and p22-phox, defects of which result in chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). The nature of the interaction between these subunits has yet to be determined. Absence of p22-phox in autosomal CGD patient-derived B-cell lines results in detectable levels of an incompletely glycosylated gp91-phox precursor. We have detected this same...

Most double-stranded DNA viruses package genetic material into empty precursor capsids (or procapsids) through a dodecameric portal protein complex that occupies 1 of the 12 vertices of the icosahedral lattice. Inhibiting incorporation of the portal complex prevents the formation of infectious virions, making this step an excellent target for antiviral drugs. The mechanism by which a sole porta...

Phages are promising alternatives to antibodies as the biorecognition element in a variety of biosensing applications. In this study, a monolayer of bacteriophage P22 whose tailspike proteins specifically recognize Salmonella serotypes was covalently bound to glass substrates through a bifunctional cross linker 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane. The specific binding of Salmonella typhimurium to the...

Attachment of multiple chelated Gd(3+) ions to the interior of bacteriophage P22 viral capsids affords nanoscale MRI contrast agents with extremely high relaxivity values. Highly fenestrated "wiffleball" morphology is unique to P22 and assures water exchange between the environment and interior cavity of the capsid. The cavity of P22 "wiffleball" was functionalized with a branched oligomer comp...

We report a phenotypically normal woman with an apparently balanced reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 9 and 18 [46,XX,t(9;18)(p22;p11.2)], giving rise to unbalanced chromosome complements in two of her children, each of whom received a different derivative chromosome. The proband's karyotype is 46,XY,-18,+der(18), t(9;18)(p22;p11.2)mat, which results in a duplication of the distal po...