De Novo Iron Oxide Hydroxide, Ferrihydrite Produced by Comamonas testosteroni Exhibiting Intrinsic Peroxidase-Like Activity and Their Analytical Applications

Natural enzyme mimics have attracted considerable attention due to leakage of enzymes and their easy denaturation during their storage and immobilization procedure. Here in this study, for the first time, a new iron oxide hydroxide, ferrihydrite – Fe1.44O0.32 (OH) 3.68 magnetic nanoparticles were synthesized by bacterial strain named Comamonas testosteroni. The characterization of the produced magnetic nanoparticles was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier-transform spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and magnetization hysteresis loops. Further, these extracted nanoparticles were proven to have biogenic magnetic behavior and to exhibit enhanced peroxidase-like activity. It is capable of catalyzing the oxidation of 3, 3′, 5, 5′-Tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) by H2O2 to produce blue color (typical color reactions). Catalysis was examined to follow Michaelis-Menton kinetics and the good affinity to both H2O2 and TMB. The Km value of the Fe1.44O0.32 (OH) 3.68 with H2O2 and TMB as the substrate was 0.0775 and 0.0155 mM, respectively, which were lower than that of the natural enzyme (HRP). Experiments of electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy proved that the BMNPs could catalyze H2O2 to produce hydroxyl radicals. As a new peroxidase mimetic, the BMNPs were exhibited to offer a simple, sensitive, and selective colorimetric method for determination of H2O2 and glucose and efficiently catalyze the detection of glucose in real blood samples.


Introduction
Natural enzymes, which are biological catalysts, have noticeable advantages such as high specificity to the substrate and high efficiency under mild conditions. However, they have some severe disadvantages such as the easy denaturation by environmental changes as their catalytic activity based on their native protein; hence, they can be easily digested by proteases and also the high price and the time-consumption of their preparation and purification [1]. Therefore, a lot of efforts have been created to expand the natural enzymes to enzyme mimetic as an efficient approach to solve the problems of these enzymes for procedural applications [2][3][4][5].
There is growing evidence that nanoparticles can act as enzyme mimics as oxidase, peroxidase, or catalase mimetics which are distinguished by low cost, high tenability, and stability [6]. Also, they can be utilized in environmental chemistry, bioassays, and future applications [4,7,8]. There are many researches about chemical synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials exhibiting enzyme-like activity such as FeSe, CuO, CeO 2 , CoFe 2 O 4 , Co 3 O 4 nanoparticles [9]. Thus, these mimic enzymes can replace natural enzymes used in many fields such as colorimetric detection, biosensor, immunoassays, and pollutant degradation [10].
Fe 3 O 4 is considered the surprising discovery of nanoparticles because it has the intrinsic peroxidase-like activity identical to that of the natural enzyme, horseradish peroxidase (HRP) [7], so the inorganic nanomaterial's field as peroxidase mimics has attracted the researchers attention. For example, a study for indicating the ability of Fe 3 O 4 MNPs [7], iron phosphates [11], and iron chalcogenides, Prussian blue (PB) [12] to catalyze the reactions of the typical peroxidase chromogens TMB, DAB and OPD in H 2 O 2 presence has been accomplished. Most of these studies have used these nanoparticles 2 BioMed Research International as peroxidase mimetic for detection of H 2 O 2 and glucose [11,13,14]. However, synthesis of these artificial nanoparticles is expensive and environmentally undesirable as it involves high temperature and produces so many toxic reagents [15] due to using organic solvents at high temperatures in the synthetic methods, such as sol-gel method, reverse miceller method, and the thermal decomposition of organometallic iron method.
Recently, microbial synthesis of MNPs has attracted great attention due to the avoidance of toxic substances production. Such synthesis is considered an ecofriendly process because it occurs in water under room temperature, pressure, and near to neutral pH [15].
Production of iron-containing nanoparticles by microorganisms is most advantageous because biogenic particles are more biocompatible and uniform in size than inorganic particles synthesized by chemical methods which made them preferable in medical areas. Moreover, processes of biosynthesis can be carried out under conditions of pressure and ambient temperature that are more simple than that of chemical syntheses and can display as an ecofriendly, costeffective, and prospective way for more progress [16,17]. Biological agents as microorganisms secrete large amounts of enzymes which reduce metals and can be responsible for nanoparticles synthesis [18][19][20].
Numerous studies have detected that many microorganisms as bacteria and fungi can form biogenic magnetic nanoparticles MNPs [15,21]. Magnetotactic bacteria produce intracellular linear chains of nanosized magnetic organelles called magnetosomes [22]. Bacterial magnetosomes which are biomineralized in magnetotactic bacteria are natural inorganic ferromagnetic nanoparticles in the range of 35∼120 nm within the single-domain size [23][24][25]. The presence of an organic membrane that contains magnetosome-specific proteins some of which are responsible for the biomineralization process [26,27], enveloping the magnetite particles and the regular morphology, distinguishes the bacterial magnetite particles from artificially synthesized magnetite [28], in addition to ability of MTB to control the magnetic nanocrystal assemply through the magnetosome chains [29]. Each magnetosome consists of a magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 ) or greigite (Fe 3 S 4 ) crystal. It was reported that the magnetosomes play a role in iron storage and are considered as an eminent model to dissect the organization of the molecular landscape of bacterial organelle [30,31] and in eliminating the toxicity of free ions in a cell leading to the production of toxic radicals because of Fenton reaction [32,33]. Magnetosomes can also scavenge reactive oxygen species [34]. Based on the Fenton reaction, Fe 2+ can catalyze the conservation of H 2 O 2 which is considered a powerful and potential harmful oxidizing agent to OH radicals. Furthermore, these biogenic MNPs would be anticipated to show low cost, high chemical purity, uniform and fine particle size in addition to good biocompatibility without modification of the surface [35] which make them a promising magnetic nanomaterial in gene targeting and drug, biomolecule immobilization and wastewater treatment [36,37]. We attempt to examine BMPs' intrinsic enzyme mimetic activity similar to that found in MNPs.
In the present paper, we have developed a facile, green method for the biogenic synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles from the bacterial stain Comamonas testosteroni. The iron oxide hydroxide, ferrihydrite nanoparticles were evaluated for peroxidase activity by catalyzing the oxidation of peroxidase substrate 3, 3 , 5, 5 -tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) by hydrogen peroxide, producing blue color product, which can be detected by naked eye or spectroscopy. Further, a sensitive and selective colorimetric method for glucose detection was developed, based on the downregulating activity of glucose towards the peroxidase activity of iron oxide nanoparticles. The developed method provides sufficiently good sensitivity for screening and monitoring of glucose in real blood samples.

Materials and Methods
. . Chemicals. All chemicals were of analytical grade and used as received without further purification. 3, 3 , 5, 5 -Tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) was purchased from BIOSHARP company, glucose oxidase (GOx, from Aspergillus niger, ≥100 U/mg), and DMPO (5,  . . Morphological and Analytical Characterization of the Magnetosomes. The bacterial cells of C. testosteroni were confirmed to contain intracellular magnetosome during the growth period in batch culture of 48 hours. The isolated bacterial strain of C. testosteroni was grown in a culture medium supplemented with 0.74 g sodium succinate, 0.25 g NaNO 3 , 0.12 g sodium acetate, 0.05 g sodium thioglycolate, 5 mL 0.01 M ferric citrate solution, 5.0 mL Wolfe's mineral solution, and 10 mL Wolfe's vitamin solution; pH of the culture medium was adjusted to 5.5-6.2 and autoclaved at 121 ∘ C for 20 min. Afterwards, the bottles were cooled, inoculated, and incubated at 30 ∘ C at static state for four days. After the incubation period, the bacterial cultures were centrifuged at 10000 rpm for 5 min and the pellets were washed three times with distilled water and then suspended in PBS buffer. . . Preparation of the Nanoparticles Produced. The magnetosomes of the bacterial cells were extracted to evaluate their characteristics. The extraction was done by ultrasonication through an ultrasonic cracker (180 W, 20 s work, 15 s interval, 200 repetitions, NINGBO SCIENTZ BIOTECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD), this physical method was followed for cell dispersion and extraction of the magnetosomes. The magnetic particles, released from the bacterial cells, were harvested by permanent magnet. For characterization, the products of the output black solid were rinsed with water three times then separated and harvested by a strong permanent magnet. The . . Characterization of the BMNPs Produced by the Bacterial Strain. The morphology and size of BMNPs were checked by transmission electron microscopy (TEM, FEI/Philips TCNAI G2) at an accelerating voltage of 200 kV and direct magnification of×250,000. The composition and phase of BMNPs were recognized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) on an D/max-rB X-ray diffractometer (Rigaku, Japan) using Cu K radiation ( =1.5418Å). Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra of the nanoparticles were recorded in the range of 350-7800 cm −1 using FT-IR spectroscopy (Nicolette-6700). Room temperature-magnetic experiments were performed on a vibrating sample magnetometer (Model 3900, Princeton Measurements Corporation, sensitivity is 5.0×10−10 Am2). The hysteresis loop was measured between +500 and −500 mT with an average time of 400 ms. Saturation magnetization (Ms) and saturation remanence (Mrs) were determined after correction for paramagnetic phases. . . ESR Spectroscopy Measurements. The use of ESR technique was performed to indicate hydroxyl radicals (•OH) formed during the decomposition of H 2 O 2 induced by BMNPs. Due to its diamagnetic property, 5,5-dimethyl1pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO) is capable of trapping these short-lived •OH and readily forming stable spin adducts DMPO/•OH. BMNP sample was mixed with DMPO in the standard buffer of pH 3.2, and the reaction was triggered by addition of H 2 O 2 , then the sample mixtures were transferred into a glass capillary and put in the ESR cavity. The spectra subtraction between the sample mixtures with and without H 2 O 2 solution was conducted to obtain ESR spectra signal of spin adducts DMPO/•OH. ESR measurements were carried out using Bruker EMX ESR spectrometer (Billerica, MA) at ambient temperature with 20-mW microwave power. It is important to evaluate the proposed method specificity for detection of glucose in real samples. The specification experiments were performed using aforemention buffer. For determination of glucose in serum, the serum samples were firstly treated by centrifugation at 4000 rpm for 10 min. Afterwards, each sample was diluted two times using 10 mM L −1 PBS buffer (pH 7.2) for the subsequent work. The glucose in serum was measured according to the above procedure.

Result
. . Morphological and Analytical Characterization of Magnetosomes. The bacterial strain of C. testosteroni was confirmed to contain intracellular magnetosome during the growth period in batch culture for 48 hours. TEM in Figure 1 showed that the bacterial cells are short rods in morphology with a mean width of 0.8 m and a mean length of 1.05 m. Also, too many magnetic nanoparticles present in each cell. The magnetic nanoparticles biosynthesis through the cultivation of C. testosteroni 48h is confirmed through TEM images.

. . Preparation and Characterization of the BMNPs Extracted
from the Strain C. testosteroni. The magnetic nanoparticles in bacterial cells were extracted and purified by ultrasonication, ultracentrifugation, and magnet adsorption. TEM photographs of the Fe 1.44 O 0 . 32 (OH) 3.86 NPs have been given in Figure 2. The magnetite nanoparticles were intracellular because they were located inside the cytoplasmic membrane. The particles of the electron-dense in the cells of C. testosteroni were not arranged in a single chain; however, they were arranged at the center of the bacterial cytoplasm. The shape of nanoparticles was spherical as shown from the TEM and well dispersed in uniform size. Their shape is nearly hexagonal. It can be shown from the images of TEM that the particles have a very wide size distribution. The description of crystallographic structure and phase purity of the sample was examined by XRD measurement. XRD result showed that Fe 1.44 O 032 (OH) 3.86 was highly crystalline and all the diffraction peaks can be confirmed to be hexagonal crystalline phase of iron oxide hydroxide, ferrihydrite match well with the JCPDS card no. 01-073-8408 as shown in Furthermore, the nanoparticles synthesized by C testosteroni were characterized by FT-IR spectroscopy. FT-IR spectroscopy is an important tool to know the functional group of any organic molecule. As shown in Figure 4  softening of the magnetic property is caused depending on the nanoparticles small size. Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 NP has superparamagnetism and is easy to be separated from the solution under the external magnetic effect. Moreover, the saturation magnetization will be increased by decreasing the size of the particle [38].
.   because H 2 O 2 is the product of many enzymatic reactions of important biochemical substance, such as glucose.
In order to indicate that the intrinsic peroxidase-like catalytic activity of the Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 NPs is due to the intact NPs rather than the free metal ions in leaching solution, the BMNPs were incubated in the reaction buffer for 10 min and then the NPs were removed from solution by centrifugation at 10000 r/min for 10 min to prepare a leaching solution. The supernatant of the aqueous solution of Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 NPs was tested towards the TMB oxidation reaction. The leaching solution had no activity (Figure 7), demonstrating that the intrinsic peroxidase-like activity cannot be attributed to leaching of iron ions into solution, but occurred on the surface of the NPs according to The peroxidase-like catalytic activity of BMNPs was investigated using the typical Michaelis-Menten curves, and steady state kinetics are shown in Figures 9(a) and 9(b). The kinetic data were obtained by changing the concentration of one substrate while keeping the concentration of the other substrate constant. A series of initial reaction rates were counted and applied to the double reciprocal of the Michaelis-Menten equation, where v is the initial velocity, [S] is the concentration of the substrate, Km is the Michaelis-Menten constant, and Vmax is the maximal reaction velocity. The K and V max were obtained using Lineweaver-Burk plots. To further investigate the mechanism of BMNPs catalysis, their activity over a range of TMB and H 2 O 2 concentrations was measured. The double reciprocal plots of the initial velocity versus concentration of one substrate were gained over concentration range of the other substrate (Figures 9(c) and 9(d)).

. . Study of Free Radical Formation by ESR.
To confirm the generation of • OH radicals from H 2 O 2 decomposition an ESR experiment was employed. According to the result here there is evidence that H 2 O 2 alone did not produce OH radical. Although after addition of BMNPs helped the production of OH radicals from H 2 O 2 . As shown in Figure 10, the ESR spectra in the Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 -H 2 O 2 system displayed a typical fourfold characteristic peak of the DMPO-• OH adducts with an intensity ratio of 1 : 2 : 2 : 1. However, the DMPO-• OH adducts signal intensity in the control experiment of the BMNPs absence. Furthermore, the specificity of the glucose detection assay was investigated by conducting control experiments using 5 mM L −1 maltose, 5 mM L −1 D-fructose, 5 mM L −1 lactose, 5 mM L −1 cholestrol, 5 mM L −1 inositol, 5 mM L −1 ascorbic acid, 5 mM L −1 vitamin B1, and 5 mM L −1 vitamin B9 instead of 5 mM L −1 glucose. However, the concentrations of the substances were as fold as that of glucose; the response of these interfering substances was negligible compared with that of glucose ( Figure 12). Due to these results, the colorimetric method employed here had high specificity for glucose.
. . Glucose Detection in Human Serum. In view of the high specificity and high sensitivity towards glucose, the developed method was used to determine glucose concentration in human serum. Four samples of the serum with different glucose concentrations were diluted two times to make the glucose concentration in serum samples in the linear regression equation of glucose range. As shown in Table 3, the experimental values were in agreement with those provided by the hospital. The accuracy of the method was assessed by the spiked recovery test.

Discussion
Because of the dual functionality of the magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) as peroxidase mimetic and magnetic separation agents, there is particular interest of these particles [7]. Lately, biosynthesis of MNPs has become a useful method instead of traditional chemical procedures that utilize high temperatures, hazardous organic solvents and pressure; hence, they hurt the environment badly. Instead of this, the development of green synthesis and ecofriendly approaches to biosynthesize MNPs using microorganisms has obtained considerable attention. Some microorganisms were confirmed to manufacture ferromagnetic nanoparticles with uniform particle size and single domain such as magnetotactic bacteria [36,39,40] and nonmagnetotactic bacteria [37,41]. The biogenic MNPs manifested superior performances compared with artificial magnetic nanoparticles (AMNPs) [35].
In this study, we have isolated MNP-producing bacterial strain recognized as Comammonas testosteroni; new MNPs were extracted from the strain that were characterized to be hexagonal in shape, 80 nm in size, affirmed after 48 h, with the chemical structure Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 and ferromagnetic behavior.
Moreover, we provide the first report that According to TEM in Figure 2, it has been shown that the particles of the electron-dense in the cells of C. testosteroni were hexagonal in shape but not arranged in a single chain; however, they were arranged at the center of the bacterial cytoplasm. Such results looked alike synthesized AgNPs inside the periplasmic space of the bacterial strains Psuedomonas stutzeri AG259 and B. licheniformi [42].
Considering the patterns of XRD of the BMNPs from C. testosteroni, the characteristic diffraction peaks within the range of 15 < 2 < 65 can be indexed as pure Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 (JCPDS card no. 01-073-8408), and the sharp peaks illustrated that the product is well crystalline (Figure 3).
The FT-IR analysis was carried out to know the functional groups of the BMNPs as shown in Figure 4, the absorption peaks at wavelength 1060, 1384, and 1610 cm −1 were assigned to the O-H vibrations of absorbed H 2 O molecules or structural OH groups [43,44]. The other absorption peaks at wavelength 671,847 cm −1 were attributed to the characteristic Fe-O vibration modes in -FeOOH [43,45,46]. There is a typical band of -FeOOH recorded at 780 cm −1 can be attributed to Fe-O-H bending vibrations in -FeOOH [47].
The hysteresis curve of the BMNPs in Figure 5 was recorded at room temperature with a vibrating sample magnetometer. The main scientific parameters to describe the magnetism of ferromagnetic materials are the remnant magnetization Mr, the saturation magnetization Ms, and the coercivity Hc. The high H c value can be evident for existing strong magnetic interactions between nanoparticles [45,46]. The loop squareness ratio (Mr/Ms) was very low (< 0.5) indicating the magnetostatical interaction of the particles [48,49] and also the presence of significant amount of SP particles [38]. Moreover, the saturation magnetization will be increased by decreasing the size of the particle [38].
In comparison with those exhibited by horseradish peroxidase (HRP), artificial magnetic nanoparticles (AMNPs) have been demonstrated to have peroxidase-like activity [7] and the synthesis of the MNP-magnetosome in the bacterial cell protecting it from H 2 O 2 toxicity was also mentioned by [30]. In addition, the bacterial magnetosomes in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MSR-1 exhibiting peroxidaselike activity to decrease the levels of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) was also demonstrated by [34]. It is known that peroxidase can catalyze the peroxidase substrates oxidation to produce a typical color [30,50]. To investigate the peroxidase-like activity of the extracted BMNPs from YN01, similar experiments were carried out. For the first time, we confirmed that the BMNPs extracted from the strain of C. testosteroni can be evaluated as peroxidase mimetic. Similar to the horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as a natural enzyme, the peroxidase-like catalytic activity of the Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 depends on temperature, pH and H 2 O 2 concentration [7]. Previously, it has been reported that the catalytic oxidation of TMB with H 2 O 2 in acidic solutions using Fe 3 O 4 MNPs was much faster than in neutral and alkaline solutions [51]. Our current result indicated that the catalytic behavior of the Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 was dependent on the pH (Figure 8 [51], the reason for increasing the enzyme activity is due to the Fenton's reagent (i.e., Fe 2+ /Fe 3+ ions in solution) that can help the H 2 O 2 breakdown as shown with the iron ions included in the Fe 3 O 4 MNPs which might leak into the buffer of the reaction solution. Other causes may be attributed to the more stability of H 2 O 2 in pH 3 ∼ 4.5, but not in alkaline solution [52], and can be analyzed immediately to produce H 2 O and O 2 as shown in Briefly, both the strong acid or alkaline environment deviating from the neutral environment for bacterial growth (pH = 6.75) may reduce the enzyme activity of BMPs [53]. As for the effect of temperature batch experiments were conducted from 20 to 70 ∘ C. As can be illustrated, the maximum catalytic activity of Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 was obtained at 50 ∘ C (Figure 8(a)). Here, the results showed that the signals increased as the reaction temperature increased and that in consistent with the result of [51]. Nevertheless, our study is different from some previous reports [53,54] because as the temperature increased, the catalytic reaction increased.  3.86 NPs has multiple active sites, while one HRP molecule has only one iron ion in the active site [7,50]. Furthermore, the double reciprocal plots (Figures 9(b) and 9(d)) indicated the characteristic parallel lines of a ping-pong mechanism and implied that like HRP, the Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 NPs bind and react with first substrate, then release first product before reacting with second substrate [7].
Iron and other free metal ions are significant cofactors for the enzymes of antioxidant defense as catalase, peroxidase, and SOD [54][55][56]. In order to test if the peroxidase-like activity of BMNPs is according to the intact nanoparticles but not the free metal ions leaching into solution, first BMNPs were incubated in the reaction buffer for 10 min and then separated from the solution with a strong magnet to prepare a leaching solution. Our results illustrated that the demonstrated peroxidase-like activity is produced from the surface properties of the nanostructure but not from the ionleaching process.
Last reports have indicated that • OH radicals were obtained from the decomposition of H 2 O 2 during the catalytic reaction of different nanozymes [57]. To confirm the generation of • OH radicals from H 2 O 2 decomposition an ESR experiment was employed. It has been proved that iron oxide NPs transmit electron between pairs of various oxidation states of Fe 2+ /Fe 3+ to drive their catalytic activity [58,59]. In the present system, H 2 O 2 molecules can be adsorbed on the surface of BMNPs and then activated by bound Fe2+ and Fe3+ to produce the •OH radical. The produced •OH radical might be stabilized by BMNPs through partial electron exchange interaction that may give the catalytic ability of BMNPs.
A simple and sensitive colorimetric method was developed to detect H 2 O 2 and glucose, depending on the peroxidase-like activity of Fe  [61], and Fe 3 O 4 /chitosan (GC rotating electrode) [62].
H 2 O 2 could be generated by the reaction that glucose oxidase (GOx) could catalyze the glucose oxidation in the presence of O 2 that is mean, when coupled with the glucose catalytic reaction by GOx; the above TMB-H 2 O 2 catalytic reaction could be used to indirectly expose glucose by support of Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 NPs as the peroxide-like enzyme. The linear regression equation was A = 1.00102 [glucose] + 0.00638 with a correlation coefficient of 0.9944, and the linear range for glucose from 1×10 −3 -1.2 mM. The detection limit was as low as 2.618 M which was even lower than that provided by the synthesized one CuS, H2TCPP-CdS and Au NPs as shown in (Table 2). The color variation was observed clearly by the naked eye (inset of Figure 11(c)). The Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 NPs-based detection system indicated a wide linear range and extremely high sensitivity to glucose.
To evaluate the diagnostic capability of the selected Fe 1.44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 NPs, we used real blood samples of human which had representative levels of glucose according to the normal, boundary, and high stage of hyperglycemia (normal; ≤ 5.6 mM, boundary; 5.6 ∼ 7 mM, and high; >7 mM) [64]. The glucose concentration in serum samples of the healthy and diabetic persons is about 3-8 mM and 9-40 mM, respectively [65]. Therefore, the proposed colorimetric method by aid of Fe 1.44 O 0.32( OH) 3.86 NPs was able to detect the glucose concentration in human serum with high sensitivity, selectivity, and accuracy. As shown in Table 3, the values of the experiment were in agreement with those provided by the hospital. The accuracy of the method was assessed by the spiked recovery test.

Conclusion
In summary, we have synthesized for the first time novel magnetic nanoparticles namely iron oxide hydroxide, ferrihydrite designed as Fe 1 . 44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 from the bacterial strain Comamonas genus using microbial synthesis method to avoid the production of toxic substances commonly produced by chemical synthesis methods and further characterized the extracted BMNPs and showed that it has magnetic behavior afterwards, proving that it possesses high peroxidase-like catalytic activity. The peroxidase-like activity of Fe 1 . 44 O 0.32 (OH) 3.86 is dependent on temperature, pH. Moreover, we also detect that the BMNPs could be used for colorimetric detection of H 2 O 2 and glucose, with high efficiency in real human serum glucose detection. This work will introduce new information of biogenic magnetic nanoparticles as peroxidase mimetic and facilitate their utilization in catalytic elimination and bioassays of biomedical applications.

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Disclosure
Zhao Min's other email is 704828816@qq.com.

Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Authors' Contributions
Amany Ahmed performed the experiments and analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript; Adam Abagana brought the samples; Daizong Cui revised the manuscript; and Min Zhao designed the study and experiments.