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The designed peptide can be fixed on surface of the CdTe quantum dots (QDs)-modified indium-tin oxide (ITO) electrode through electrostatic attraction to construct the photoelectrochemical biosensor. The tyrosinase target can catalyze the oxidization of tyrosine by oxygen into ortho-benzoquinone residues, which results in a decrease in the sensor photocurrent. Subsequently, the cleavage site could be recognized and cut off by another thrombin target, restoring the sensor photocurrent. The decrease or increase of photocurrent in the sensor enables us to assay tyrosinase and thrombin. Thus, the detection of tyrosinase and thrombin can be achieved in the linear range from 2.6 to 32 \u03bcg\/mL and from 4.5 to 100 \u03bcg\/mL with detection limits of 1.5 \u03bcg\/mL and 1.9 \u03bcg\/mL, respectively. Most importantly, this strategy shall allow us to detect different classes of enzymes simultaneously by designing various enzyme-specific peptide substrates.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16010135","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,22]],"date-time":"2016-01-22T11:36:13Z","timestamp":1453462573000},"page":"135","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["A Novel Photoelectrochemical Biosensor for Tyrosinase and Thrombin Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Jiexia","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Key Laboratory of Chem-Biosensing, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China"},{"name":"Departement of Chemistry, Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 241002, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yifan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Key Laboratory of Chem-Biosensing, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guang-Chao","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Key Laboratory of Chem-Biosensing, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2922","DOI":"10.1021\/ac980123q","article-title":"Photoelectrochemical analysis of ascorbic acid","volume":"70","author":"Cooper","year":"1998","journal-title":"Anal. 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