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Peptides responsible for type 2 diabetes can also be used as heme binding scaffolds for catalyzing oxygen reduction reaction. The resulting biochemical electrodes surpass the performance, both in terms of selectivity as well as kinetic rate, of all know artificial iron porphyrin based oxygen reducing catalysts.
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Inspiration from unlikely sources. Amylin are peptides involved in type 2 diabetes. The fact that these peptides may find use at scaffolds for heme based oxygen reduction catalyst is eye opening.
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This page is a summary of: Heme bound amylin self-assembled monolayers on an Au electrode: an efficient bio-electrode for O2 reduction to H2O, Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc49571j.
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