Cofactor-free oxidase-mimetic nanomaterials from self-assembled histidine-rich peptides
- 30 November 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Materials
- Vol. 20 (3), 395-402
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-00856-6
Abstract
Natural oxidases mainly rely on cofactors and well-arranged amino acid residues for catalysing electron-transfer reactions but suffer from non-recovery of their activity upon externally induced protein unfolding. However, it remains unknown whether residues at the active site can catalyse similar reactions in the absence of the cofactor. Here, we describe a series of self-assembling, histidine-rich peptides, as short as a dipeptide, with catalytic function similar to that of haem-dependent peroxidases. The histidine residues of the peptide chains form periodic arrays that are able to catalyse H2O2 reduction reactions efficiently through the formation of reactive ternary complex intermediates. The supramolecular catalyst exhibiting the highest activity could be switched between inactive and active states without loss of activity for ten cycles of heating/cooling or acidification/neutralization treatments, demonstrating the reversible assembly/disassembly of the active residues. These findings may aid the design of advanced biomimetic catalytic materials and provide a model for primitive cofactor-free enzymes.This publication has 51 references indexed in Scilit:
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