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double duplex invasion

A mechanism by which a pair of pseudocomplementary protein nucleic acids (PNAs) target and inactivate DNA. The DNA strands are unwound locallly and each is targeted simultaneously by one of the PNAs.Lohse, J., Dahl, O. and Nielsen, P.E. (1999) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 11804-11808

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