Designing artificial mimetic enzymes with high activity/selectivity to replace chiral bioenzymes is of great interest in the development of chiral materials consisting of molecules, enantiomers, that exist in two forms as mirror images of one another but cannot be superimposed. In this study, the chiral catalytic structural unit was streamlined from tyrosinase to integrate a mimetic nanozyme. The chiral amino acid l-histidine, as the chiral binding/recognition site, and the active metal site Cu were coupled (Cu@l-His) to create a copper-histidine brace with enantioselective catalytic ability to tyrosinol enantiomers. Results of kinetic parameters and activation energies confirmed the excellent peroxidase-like activity with a preference of Cu@l-His to l-tyrosinol. Such a preference could be attributed to the structurally oriented copper-histidine brace with a stronger affinity and catalytic activity to l-tyrosinol. By accurately evaluating chiral recognition units derived from bioenzymes, stable and superior chiral mimetic nanoenzymes could be constructed in a more straightforward and simplified manner, and they could also be extended to the reconstruction of diverse chiral enzymes.
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