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A revisiting of transition metal phosphide (Cu3P and FeP) nanozymes for two sugar-related reactions

Show Author's Information Daiyong Chao1,2,§,  Zhixuan Yu2,§,  Jinxing Chen2,  Qing Dong1,2,  Weiwei Wu2,  Youxing Fang2( ),  Ling Liu2( ),  Shaojun Dong1,2( )
College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China

§ Daiyong Chao and Zhixuan Yu contributed equally to this work.

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peroxidase-like activity, cascade reaction, glucose oxidase-like activity, transition metal phosphide, glycoside hydrolase mimic
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Chao D, Yu Z, Chen J, et al. A revisiting of transition metal phosphide (Cu3P and FeP) nanozymes for two sugar-related reactions. Nano Research, 2023, 16(1): 189-194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4665-z
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Transition metal phosphides (TMPs) are essential catalysts for some general catalytic reactions. However, their potentials for biological catalysis have seldom been explored. Herein, we investigated the enzyme-like properties of four TMPs (FeP, CoP, Ni2P, and Cu3P) towards two sugar-related reactions. Among the four TMPs, Cu3P nanoparticles (NPs) efficiently catalyzed the hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds as glycoside hydrolase mimics, and FeP NPs possessed both glucose oxidase-like (GOx-like) and peroxidase-like activities, which combined into a cascade reaction for glucose’s simple and one-step colorimetric biosensor without GOx. Cu3P and FeP NPs with distinctive enzyme-like activities have shown unique biological catalysis potentials for further applications with an attractive and challenging goal of developing nanomaterials to mimic natural enzymes, which encourages more efforts to reveal TMP’s capabilities towards biocatalysis.


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A revisiting of transition metal phosphide (Cu3P and FeP) nanozymes for two sugar-related reactions

Show Author's information Daiyong Chao1,2,§, Zhixuan Yu2,§, Jinxing Chen2, Qing Dong1,2, Weiwei Wu2, Youxing Fang2( ), Ling Liu2( ), Shaojun Dong1,2( )
College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China

§ Daiyong Chao and Zhixuan Yu contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Transition metal phosphides (TMPs) are essential catalysts for some general catalytic reactions. However, their potentials for biological catalysis have seldom been explored. Herein, we investigated the enzyme-like properties of four TMPs (FeP, CoP, Ni2P, and Cu3P) towards two sugar-related reactions. Among the four TMPs, Cu3P nanoparticles (NPs) efficiently catalyzed the hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds as glycoside hydrolase mimics, and FeP NPs possessed both glucose oxidase-like (GOx-like) and peroxidase-like activities, which combined into a cascade reaction for glucose’s simple and one-step colorimetric biosensor without GOx. Cu3P and FeP NPs with distinctive enzyme-like activities have shown unique biological catalysis potentials for further applications with an attractive and challenging goal of developing nanomaterials to mimic natural enzymes, which encourages more efforts to reveal TMP’s capabilities towards biocatalysis.

Keywords: peroxidase-like activity, cascade reaction, glucose oxidase-like activity, transition metal phosphide, glycoside hydrolase mimic

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Received: 26 February 2022
Revised: 28 May 2022
Accepted: 15 June 2022
Published: 19 July 2022
Issue date: January 2023

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U21A2037, 22074137, and 21721003), High Technology Industrialization Special of Science and Technology Cooperation of Jilin Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 2021SYHZ0036), and Jilin Province Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 20200403002SF).

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