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Preclinical evaluation of manufacturable SARS-CoV-2 spike virus-like particles produced in Chinese Hamster Ovary cells

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العنوان: Preclinical evaluation of manufacturable SARS-CoV-2 spike virus-like particles produced in Chinese Hamster Ovary cells
المؤلفون: Sergio P. Alpuche-Lazcano, Matthew Stuible, Bassel Akache, Anh Tran, John Kelly, Sabahudin Hrapovic, Anna Robotham, Arsalan Haqqani, Alexandra Star, Tyler M. Renner, Julie Blouin, Jean-Sébastien Maltais, Brian Cass, Kai Cui, Jae-Young Cho, Xinyu Wang, Daria Zoubchenok, Renu Dudani, Diana Duque, Michael J. McCluskie, Yves Durocher
المصدر: Communications Medicine, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2023)
بيانات النشر: Nature Portfolio, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine
الوصف: Abstract Background As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, novel vaccines need to be developed that are readily manufacturable and provide clinical efficacy against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Virus-like particles (VLPs) presenting the spike antigen at their surface offer remarkable benefits over other vaccine antigen formats; however, current SARS-CoV-2 VLP vaccines candidates in clinical development suffer from challenges including low volumetric productivity, poor spike antigen density, expression platform-driven divergent protein glycosylation and complex upstream/downstream processing requirements. Despite their extensive use for therapeutic protein manufacturing and proven ability to produce enveloped VLPs, Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells are rarely used for the commercial production of VLP-based vaccines. Methods Using CHO cells, we aimed to produce VLPs displaying the full-length SARS-CoV-2 spike. Affinity chromatography was used to capture VLPs released in the culture medium from engineered CHO cells expressing spike. The structure, protein content, and glycosylation of spikes in VLPs were characterized by several biochemical and biophysical methods. In vivo, the generation of neutralizing antibodies and protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection was tested in mouse and hamster models. Results We demonstrate that spike overexpression in CHO cells is sufficient by itself to generate high VLP titers. These VLPs are evocative of the native virus but with at least three-fold higher spike density. In vivo, purified VLPs elicit strong humoral and cellular immunity at nanogram dose levels which grant protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Conclusions Our results show that CHO cells are amenable to efficient manufacturing of high titers of a potently immunogenic spike protein-based VLP vaccine antigen.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2730-664X
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2730-664X
DOI: 10.1038/s43856-023-00340-7
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/e632d3165fd5455aba16eee54c396641
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.632d3165fd5455aba16eee54c396641
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
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تدمد:2730664X
DOI:10.1038/s43856-023-00340-7