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Effect of dimethyl sulfoxide on the structure and the functional properties of horseradish peroxidase as observed by spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry
Authors:Santucci Roberto  Laurenti Enzo  Sinibaldi Federica  Ferrari Rosa Pia
Affiliation:Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Scienze Biochimiche, Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Via Montpellier 1, 00133, Rome, Italy. santucci@med.uniroma2.it
Abstract:Electrochemical biosensors have found wide application in food and clinical areas, as well as in environmental field. A large number of articles focused on horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-based biosensors have been published in the last decade, due to the capability of HRP to quantitatively detect the presence of hydrogen peroxide produced in a reaction. At present a large body of multi-enzymatic amperometric biosensors are realized by entrapping HRP together with other enzymes into a polymeric matrix; these systems represent a promising example of simple, low-cost electrochemical tools for the analysis of bioanalytes in solution, such as glucose, choline and cholesterol. Due to the fact that polymers used for HRP entrapping are soluble in organic solvents and that many solvents are strong denaturants of aquo-soluble proteins, in this paper we investigate (in particular, by circular dichroism and electron paramagnetic spectroscopies) the effect of dimethyl sulfoxide, one of the organic solvents employed for polymer solubilization, on the structure and the functionality of HRP, in order to determine the effect induced by the solvent concentration on the structure and activity of the hemoprotein. This is relevant for basic and applied biochemistry, HRP being largely employed in bioinorganic chemistry and sensor area.
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