While many protein enzymes exert their functions through multimerization, which improves both selectivity and activity, this has not yet been demonstrated for other naturally occurring catalysts. Here, we report a multimerization effect applied to catalytic DNAs (or DNAzymes) and demonstrate that the enzymatic efficiency of G-quadruplexes (GQs) in interaction with the hemin cofactor is remarkably enhanced by homodimerization. The resulting non-covalent dimeric GQ-DNAzyme system provides hemin with a structurally defined active site in which both the cofactor (hemin) and the oxidant (HO) are activated. This new biocatalytic system efficiently performs peroxidase- and peroxygenase-type biotransformations of a broad range of substrates, thus providing new perspectives for biotechnological application of GQs.
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