This work constructed an amperometric biosensing platform using CuO doped mesoporous silica hybrid (CuO/ SBA-15) as a carrier. The CuO/SBA-15 showed a pair of redox peaks of Cu 2 + /0 . Upon immobilization of tyrosinase on the hybrid, the resulting biosensor exhibited a rapid (< 0.5 s) and sensitive amperometric response to phenolic compounds under the optimized conditions. The linear response to catechol ranged from 1.2 10 À9 to 3.0 10 À5 M. The activation energy for enzymatic reaction was calculated to be 26.6 kJ mol
À1. The apparent Michaelis-Menten constants of the enzyme electrode were estimated to be 54.6, 145, 17.0, 74.8 and 633 mM for catechol, phenol, pcresol, m-cresol and dopamine hydrochloride, respectively. The metal oxide doped mesoporous silica hybrid exhibited excellent performance for construction of new biosensors.