A deoxyribozyme that hydrolyzes DNA phosphodiester linkages with a requirement for both Zn(2+) and Mn(2+) is switched by only two nucleotide mutations to require Zn(2+) alone, demonstrating that DNA-catalyzed DNA hydrolysis can be achieved using only one metal ion cofactor.
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