Journal
CHEMBIOCHEM
Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202100691
Keywords
gold nanorattles; hydrogen peroxide sensing; nanoparticles; nanozymes; peroxidase-like activity
Funding
- BioX centre and Advanced Materials Research Centre (AMRC), Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
- Department of Atomic Energy -Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (DAE-BRNS) [37(2)/20/29/2016-BRNS/37260]
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Nanozymes are artificial enzyme systems that are easier to produce, stable, and cost-effective compared to natural enzymes. Gold nanorattles exhibit excellent peroxidase-like activity, with the lowest K-M value and highest catalytic efficiency, outperforming other nanostructures and HRP.
Nanozymes are artificial enzyme systems which are easy to produce, highly stable and cost-effective in comparison to natural enzymes. Herein, we evaluated the peroxidase-like activity of gold nanorattles (Au NRTs) having a solid gold octahedron core and thin, porous cubic gold shell. We also prepared solid gold nanocubes and nanospheres of similar sizes and surface charge as that of Au NRTs and compared their activity with standard horse radish peroxidase (HRP). All the prepared nanostructures followed Michaelis-Menten kinetics as observed from their substrate concentration vs. initial reaction velocity plot using 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) as a substrate. The kinetic parameters and the catalytic efficiency for the peroxidase-like activity of the nanostructures and HRP were calculated, and it was observed that Au NRTs possess the best nanozymatic activity with lowest K-M and highest catalytic efficiency (k(cat)/K-M). The better activity of Au NRTs compared with other nanostructures and HRP could be attributed to the hollow porous structure with a solid core where different surfaces are available for reaction. Au NRTs, being the best amongst the tested nanozymes were further used for the sensing of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and were found to sense H2O2 down to 0.5 mu M. Further, two naturally occurring antioxidants, tannic acid and ascorbic acid showed inhibitory effect on the peroxidase-like activity of Au NRTs in a concentration dependent manner which can be further used for screening of antioxidants or for determining the antioxidant potential.
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