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Elimination of Homo‐polypeptides of Amino Acids from Surfaces by means of Low Pressure Inductively Coupled Plasma Discharge
Author(s) -
Kylián Ondřej,
Rauscher Hubert,
Denis Benjamin,
Ceriotti Laura,
Rossi François
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
plasma processes and polymers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.644
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1612-8869
pISSN - 1612-8850
DOI - 10.1002/ppap.200900027
Subject(s) - inductively coupled plasma , chemistry , amino acid , plasma , human decontamination , analytical chemistry (journal) , chromatography , biochemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , nuclear physics
The action of low‐pressure inductively coupled plasma discharge on selected homo‐polypeptides of amino acids, i.e., fundamental building blocks of proteins, has been investigated in order to evaluate their removal rates under different treatment conditions. It has been found that the removal rates of the homo‐polypeptides studied are strongly linked to the composition of the plasma discharges, but they are almost insensitive to their chemical composition. This provides an indication that all proteins could be removed at similar rates by a given plasma discharge, which is a finding of paramount importance mainly with respect to decontamination of surfaces and elimination of infectious proteins like prions.