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SUBMITTER: Hong S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6948237 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hong Sheng S Zhang Qiu-Ling QL Zheng Di-Wei DW Zhang Cheng C Zhang Yu Y Ye Jing-Jie JJ Cheng Han H Zhang Xian-Zheng XZ
iScience 20191218 1
Natural enzymes are mainly composed by the protein part and metallic cofactor part, both of which work cooperatively to achieve high catalytic activity. Here, natural melanin particles (NMPs) were extracted from human hair and further bound with metal ions to mimic natural enzymes. The different metal-bound NMPs (M-NMPs) exhibited different enzyme-like activities with great promise in diverse biomedical applications. It was found that Fe-bound NMPs (Fe-NMPs) showed outstanding peroxidase (POD)-l ...[more]