Evaluation of viral clearance in the production of HPV-16 L1 virus-like particles purified from insect cell cultures

Autor: Sue-Nie Park, Jei-Jun Bae, Young-Lim Kim, Byoung-Guk Kim, Hong Ki Min, Soon-Nam Kim, Hye-Sung Jeong, Jung-Yun Choi, Seung-Rel Ryu, Hong-Jin Kim, Jin-Ho Shin
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Biologicals. 34:273-279
ISSN: 1045-1056
DOI: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2005.11.008
Popis: Biopharmaceutical products produced from cell cultures have a potential for viral contamination from cell sources or from adventitious introduction during production. The objective of this study was to assess viral clearance in the production of insect cell-derived recombinant human papillomavirus (HPV)-16 type L1 virus-like particles (VLPs). We selected Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), and minute virus of mice (MVM) as relevant viruses to achieve the aim of this study. A downstream process for the production of purified HPV-16 L1 VLPs consisted of detergent lysis of harvested cells, sonication, sucrose cushion centrifugation, and cesium chloride (CsCl) equilibrium density centrifugation. The capacity of each purification/treatment step to clear viruses was expressed as reduction factor by measuring the difference in log virus infectivity of sample pools before and after each process. As a result, detergent treatment (0.5% v/v, Nonidet P-40/phosphate-buffered saline) was effective for inactivating enveloped viruses such as JEV and BVDV, but no significant reduction (1.0 log(10)) was observed in the non-enveloped MVM. The CsCl equilibrium density centrifugation was fairly effective for separating all three relevant adventitious viruses with different CsCl buoyant density from that of HPV-16 L1 VLPs (JEV, BVDV, and MVM = 4.30, 3.10,or = 4.40 log(10) reductions). Given the study conditions we used, overall cumulative reduction factors for clearance of JEV, BVDV, and MVM wereor = 10.50,or = 9.20, andor = 6.40 log(10) in 150 ml of starting cell cultures, respectively.
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