In a city of 645,000, the Baltimore Department of Health estimates there are 60,000 drug addicts, with as many as 48,000 of them hooked on heroin. A federal report released last month puts the number of heroin addicts alone at 60,000.
Confidence votes 68. You can inactivate them, not kill them. They are technically not alive. Think of them more like a substance, a protein to be exact. household bleach will inactivate prions if left in a bleach/water solution for at least 30 minutes. the directions for this are under the prions topic on Wikipedia.rions are not eukaryotic. In fact, prions aren't even alive. They are merely an infectious protein, like a virus or a viroid. A commonly known prion is the mad cow disease.
Answers. Best Answer: well that depends on what the inactive form of the enzyme is .For example. if one wishes to activate trypsingen to the active protease, trypsin...trypsinogen reacts with another proteolytic enzyme enterokinase, that cleaves off a polypeptide cap that had inhibited activity. The result trypsin is now active.