Baculoviruses are ubiquitous insect viruses well known for their use as bioinsecticides, gene therapy vectors, and protein expression systems. Overexpression of recombinant proteins in insect cell culture utilizes the strong promoter of the polyhedrin gene. In infected larvae, the polyhedrin protein forms robust intracellular crystals called polyhedra, which protect encased virions for prolonge...

Certain insect viruses produce stable infectious microcrystals called polyhedra which function to protect the virus after the death of infected larvae. Polyhedra form within infected cells and contain numerous virus particles embedded in a crystalline lattice of the viral protein polyhedrin. We have previously demonstrated that the Nterminal 75 amino acids of the Bombx mori cypovirus (BmCPV) tu...

The geomeffy, bond valences, and polymerization ofhexavalent uranium polyhedra from 105 well-refined structures are analyzed. The Utu cation is almost always present in crystal stnrctures as part of a nearly linear (UOr)z* uranyl ion that is coordinated by four, five or six equatorial anions in an approximately planar arangement perpendicular to the uranyl ion, giving square, pentagonal and hex...

Isogonal polyhedra are those polyhedra having the property of being vertextransitive. By this we mean that every vertex can be mapped to any other vertex via a symmetry of the whole polyhedron; in a sense, every vertex looks exactly like any other. The Platonic solids are examples, but these are bounded polyhedra and our focus here is on infinite polyhedra. When the polygons of an infinite isog...

The three known classes of convex polyhedron with equal edge lengths and polyhedral symmetry--tetrahedral, octahedral, and icosahedral--are the 5 Platonic polyhedra, the 13 Archimedean polyhedra--including the truncated icosahedron or soccer ball--and the 2 rhombic polyhedra reported by Johannes Kepler in 1611. (Some carbon fullerenes, inorganic cages, icosahedral viruses, geodesic structures, ...

The first continuous silver polyhedra framework containing four kinds of coordination spheres has been successfully prepared by the reaction of silver(I) nitrate and 4(1H)-pyridone-3-sulfonic acid. This polyhedra framework is constructed from four kinds of silver(I) polyhedra by sharing corners, edges and faces.