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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 46, Issue 29, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/46/29/295402
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25108505, 23340176] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Sterilization of certain infected areas of the human body surface is necessary for dental and surgical therapies. Because the blood is filled with body fluid, sterilization in solution is essential. In vitro solution sterilization has been successively carried out using a combination of low-temperature atmospheric-pressure plasma and the reduced pH method, where the solution is sufficiently acidic. Here, we show the molecular mechanism of such plasma sterilization in solution based on microbiology. Three kinds of bacteria were inactivated by plasma treatment under various pH conditions. The theoretical and experimental models revealed that the sterilization was characterized by the concentration of hydroperoxy radicals (HOO center dot), which were dependent on the pH value. Bacterial inactivation rates were proportional to the HOO center dot concentrations calculated by the theoretical model. To evaluate the penetration of radicals into the cell membrane, a bacterial model using dye-included micelles was used. Decolouration rates of the model were also in proportion with the calculated HOO center dot concentrations. These results indicate that the key species for plasma sterilization were hydroperoxy radicals. More importantly, the high permeation of hydroperoxy radicals into the cell membrane plays a key role for efficient bactericidal inactivation using the reduced pH method.
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