Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jan 29, 2026

Scalable Syntheses of Graphene Oxide and Reduced Graphene Oxide using Cascade Design Oxidation and Highly Basic Reduction Reactions
Published on: July 3, 2025
High-Performance Integrated Enzyme Cascade Bioplatform Based on Protein-BiPt Nanochain@Graphene Oxide Hybrid Guided
Yan Liu1, Yuanlin Zheng1, Zhen Chen1
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225002, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Nanozymes provide new opportunities for facilitating next generation artificial enzyme cascade platforms. However, the fabrication of high-performance integrated artificial enzyme cascade (IAEC) bioplatforms based on nanozymes remains a great challenge. A facile and effective self-assembly strategy for constructing an IAEC system based on an inorganic/protein hybrid nanozyme, β-casein-BiPt nanochain@GO (CA-BiPtNC@GO) nanohybrid with unique physicochemical surface properties and hierarchical structures, is introduced here. Due to the synergetic effect of the protein, GO, and Bi3+ , the hybrid acts as highly adaptable building blocks to immobilize natural enzymes directly and noncovalently without the loss of enzyme activity. Simultaneously, the CA-BiPtNC@GO nanohybrid exhibits outstanding peroxidase-mimicking activity and works well with natural oxidases, resulting in prominent activity in catalyzing cascade reactions. As a result, the proposed IAEC bioplatform exhibits excellent sensitivity with a wide linear range of 0.5 × 10-6 to 100 × 10-6 m and a detection limit of 0.05 × 10-6 m for glucose. Meticulous design of ingenious hierarchically nanostructured nanozymes with unique physicochemical surface properties can provide a facile and efficient way to immobilize and stabilize nature enzymes using self-assembly instead of chemical processes, and fill the gap in developing robust nanozyme-triggered IAEC systems with applications in the environment, sensing, and synthetic biology.
Related Concept Videos
Intracellular Signaling Cascades
Protein Complex Assembly
Many viruses self-assemble into a fully functional unit using the infected host cell to...
Protein Complex Assembly
Rab Cascades
Enzymes
Enzyme deficiencies can often translate into life-threatening diseases. For example, a genetic abnormality resulting in the deficiency of the enzyme G6PD...
Pyruvate Oxidation
First, the enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase removes the carboxyl group from pyruvate and releases it as carbon dioxide. The stripped molecule is then oxidized and releases electrons, which are then picked up by NAD+...

