title: How to silence silencing.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Louis Pasteur, 15 rue René Descartes, F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Westhof
mesh_terms: D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D019281:Dimerization; D020868:Gene Silencing; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D034741:RNA, Small Interfering; D014764:Viral Proteins