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Published on: July 11, 2012
Optimization of Fe3O4 nanozyme activity via single amino acid modification mimicking an enzyme active site
Kelong Fan1, Hui Wang2, Juqun Xi3
1Key Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals, CAS-University of Tokyo Joint Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. lzgao@yzu.edu.cn yanxy@ibp.ac.cn.
Abstract:
The Fe3O4 nanozyme was the first reported nanoparticle with intrinsic peroxidase-like activity and has been widely used in biomedicine. To optimize its catalytic activity, we introduced histidine residues onto the Fe3O4 nanoparticle surface in order to mimic the enzymatic microenvironment of natural peroxidase enzymes. Our results show that modification with a single amino acid could more than ten-fold improve the apparent affinity (KM) of the Fe3O4 nanozyme for the substrate H2O2 and enhanced its catalytic efficiency (kcat/KM) up to twenty fold. Thus we not only optimized the activity of the Fe3O4 nanozyme, but also provide a new rationale for improving the efficiency of nanomaterial-based catalysts by utilizing strategies observed in nature.
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