Redox and electrocatalytic properties of mimochrome VI, a synthetic heme peptide adsorbed on gold

Langmuir. 2010 Dec 7;26(23):17831-5. doi: 10.1021/la103744x. Epub 2010 Nov 11.

Abstract

Mimochrome VI (MC-VI) is a synthetic heme peptide containing a helix-heme-helix sandwich motif designed to reproduce the catalytic activity of heme oxidases. The thermodynamics of Fe(III) to Fe(II) reduction and the kinetics of the electron-transfer process for MC-VI immobilized through hydrophobic interactions on a gold electrode coated with a nonpolar SAM of decane-1-thiol have been determined through cyclic voltammetry. Immobilization slightly affects the reduction potential of MC-VI, which under these conditions electrocatalytically turns over molecular oxygen. This work sets the premise for the exploitation of totally synthetic mimochrome-modified electrode surfaces for clinical and pharmaceutical biosensing.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adsorption
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Catalysis
  • Cytochromes c / chemistry
  • Deuteroporphyrins / chemistry*
  • Electrochemistry / methods*
  • Electrodes
  • Gold / chemistry*
  • Heme / chemistry*
  • Metalloproteins / chemistry*
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Oxidation-Reduction*
  • Oxygen / chemistry
  • Peptides / chemistry*
  • Protein Conformation

Substances

  • Cobalt(III)-mimochrome IV
  • Deuteroporphyrins
  • Metalloproteins
  • Peptides
  • Heme
  • Gold
  • Cytochromes c
  • Oxygen