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Mechanistic studies of the 'blue' Cu enzyme, bilirubin oxidase, as a highly efficient electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction

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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 12, 期 42, 页码 13962-13974

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0cp00018c

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  1. Leverhulme Trust
  2. EPSRC [EPSRC EP/G00434X/1]
  3. CAPES (Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior-Ministry of Education of Brazil) [4537/07-6]
  4. University of Alicante
  5. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H003878/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  6. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H019480/1, EP/D047943/1, EP/G00434X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  7. BBSRC [BB/H003878/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  8. EPSRC [EP/H019480/1, EP/G00434X/1, EP/D047943/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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The 'blue copper' enzyme bilirubin oxidase from Myrothecium verrucaria shows significantly enhanced adsorption on a pyrolytic graphite 'edge' (PGE) electrode that has been covalently modified with naphthyl-2-carboxylate functionalities by diazonium coupling. Modified electrodes coated with bilirubin oxidase show electrocatalytic voltammograms for the direct, four-electron reduction of O-2 by bilirubin oxidase with up to four times the current density of an unmodified PGE electrode. Electrocatalytic voltammograms measured with a rapidly rotating electrode (to remove effects of O-2 diffusion limitation) have a complex shape (an almost linear dependence of current on potential below pH 6) that is similar regardless of how PGE is chemically modified. Importantly, the same waveform is observed if bilirubin oxidase is adsorbed on Au(111) or Pt(111) single-crystal electrodes (at which activity is short-lived). The electrocatalytic behavior of bilirubin oxidase, including its enhanced response on chemically-modified PGE, therefore reflects inherent properties that do not depend on the electrode material. The variation of voltammetric waveshapes and potential-dependent (O-2) Michaelis constants with pH and analysis in terms of the dispersion model are consistent with a change in rate-determining step over the pH range 5-8: at pH 5, the high activity is limited by the rate of interfacial redox cycling of the Type 1 copper whereas at pH 8 activity is much lower and a sigmoidal shape is approached, showing that interfacial electron transfer is no longer a limiting factor. The electrocatalytic activity of bilirubin oxidase on Pt(111) appears as a prominent pre-wave to electrocatalysis by Pt surface atoms, thus substantiating in a single, direct experiment that the minimum overpotential required for O-2 reduction by the enzyme is substantially smaller than required at Pt. At pH 8, the onset of O-2 reduction lies within 0.14 V of the four-electron O-2/2H(2)O potential.

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