How to silence silencing.
Two recent reports describe the stunning crystal structures of complexes between a viral protein that suppresses RNA silencing and a 21 nucleotide small interfering (si)RNA.
Westhof
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Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Louis Pasteur, 15 rue René Descartes, F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D019281:Dimerization; D020868:Gene Silencing; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
D034741:RNA, Small Interfering; D014764:Viral Proteins