Electronchemical processes involving enzymes.

摘要

The modification of enzymes through chemical attachment of an electronically active material such as a ferroceneamide or a ferroceneacetamide, or through chemical conversion of functional groups of an enzyme, such as conversion of enzyme tyrosine-amides to enzyme dihydroxyphenylalanine amides, allows previously unattainable direct interactions between the enzyme and an electrode. Thus, it is possible to drive chemical reactions involving the enzyme directly by interaction with an electrode, or conversely it is possible to monitor chemical reactions involving the enzyme directly at an electrode. This ability has consequences for chemical synthesis, for the assay of biochemicals, and for the local perturbation of the concentration of reducible or oxidizable biochemicals in biological systems by means of electrode processes involving the chemically-modified enzymes.