The bioelectrocatalytic properties of cytochrome C by direct electrochemistry on DNA film modified electrode

The direct electrochemistry of cytochrome C can be performed in weak acidic and basic aqueous solutions. Cytochrome C can be deposited as a stable and electrochemically active film on a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) modified glassy carbon electrode. These films can also be produced on gold, platinum, and transparent semiconducting, tin oxide electrodes. Two-layer modified electrodes containing cytochrome C and a DNA film were prepared by the deposition of cytochrome C on a DNA film modified electrode. The cytochrome C/DNA film was electrocatalytically oxidation active for L-cysteine ir a pH 8.3 tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (TRIS)-buffered aqueous solution through both Fe-III and Fe-IV species. The electrocatalytic oxidation current developed from the anodic peak of the redox couple. The electrocatalytic oxidation properties of ascorbic acid, NH2OH, N2H4, and SO32- by a cytochrome C/DNA film were Also determined, and shown to be electrocatalytically active. An electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance, cyclic voltammetry, and direct spectroelectrochemistry were used to study in situ DNA deposition on a gold disc electrode and cytochrome C deposition, on DNA/Au and DNA/GC films. The direct electrochemistry of cytochrome C can also be performed, and it can be deposited as a stable and electrochemically active film on polyvinyl sulfonate, polystyrene sulfonate, TiO2, and polyethylene glycol modified glassy carbon electrodes. The results show that cytochrome C interacts with, and deposits on, a DNA film modified electrode, and that the cytochrome C (Fe-III) oxidized form is more easily deposited on a DNA film than the cytochrome C (Fe-II) reduced form. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.