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Xinjian Yang1, Chuanqi Zhao, Enguo Ju
1State Key laboratory of Rare Earth Resources Utilization and Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China. jren@ciac.ac.cn xqu@ciac.ac.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 16, 2013
Abstract:
Here we demonstrate that GO and RGO exhibit contrasting effects on modulation of the peroxidase activity of cyt c. GO could dramatically improve the enzyme activity of cyt c, while RGO showed a strong inhibition effect on cyt c.
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