[Raman spectra of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase and L-cysteine used as an electron transfer promoter].

In author's laboratory, it has been demonstrated with electrochemical techniques that L-cysteine can be used as an effective electron transfer promoter to accelerate the electron transfer process of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase on gold electrode. In order to reveal the mechanism of this promotion, confocal microscopic Raman spectroscopic technique is employed here to obtain Raman spectra of solid state SOD and L-cysteine modified gold electrode. Moreover, Raman spectra of L-cysteine modified gold electrode with two different approaches are also obtained. Analysis and discussion for these Raman spectra are reported.