“…Thus, a number of investigators have studied adsorption equilibria of proteins under different conditions (6 -10). Furthermore, we have recently clarified that several peptides containing several acidic amino acid residues are responsible for the direct interaction of bovine ß-lactoglobulin, one of the soil components of milk, with a stainless steel surface (8). This result suggests the importance of the amino acid sequence in adsorption on a solid surface and prompts us to elucidate the adsorption behavior of amino acid residues on the stainless steel surface.…”