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Improving Influenza HA-Vlps Production in Insect High Five Cells via Adaptive Laboratory Evolution
The use of non-standard culture conditions has proven efficient to increase cell performance and recombinant protein production in different cell hosts. However, the establishment of high-producing cell populations through adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) has been poorly explored, in particular f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7711658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33036359 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8040589 |
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author | Correia, Ricardo Fernandes, Bárbara Alves, Paula M. Carrondo, Manuel J.T. Roldão, António |
author_facet | Correia, Ricardo Fernandes, Bárbara Alves, Paula M. Carrondo, Manuel J.T. Roldão, António |
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description | The use of non-standard culture conditions has proven efficient to increase cell performance and recombinant protein production in different cell hosts. However, the establishment of high-producing cell populations through adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) has been poorly explored, in particular for insect cells. In this study, insect High Five cells were successfully adapted to grow at a neutral culture pH (7.0) through ALE for an improved production of influenza hemagglutinin (HA)-displaying virus-like particles (VLPs). A stepwise approach was used for the adaptation process, in which the culture pH gradually increased from standard 6.2 to 7.0 (ΔPh = 0.2–0.3), and cells were maintained at each pH value for 2–3 weeks until a constant growth rate and a cell viability over 95% were observed. These adapted cells enabled an increase in cell-specific HA productivity up to three-fold and volumetric HA titer of up to four-fold as compared to non-adapted cells. Of note, the adaptation process is the element driving increased specific HA productivity as a pH shift alone was inefficient at improving productivities. The production of HA-VLPs in adapted cells was successfully demonstrated at the bioreactor scale. The produced HA-VLPs show the typical size and morphology of influenza VLPs, thus confirming the null impact of the adaptation process and neutral culture pH on the quality of HA-VLPs produced. This work strengthens the potential of ALE as a bioprocess engineering strategy to improve the production of influenza HA-VLPs in insect High Five cells. |
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spelling | pubmed-77116582020-12-04 Improving Influenza HA-Vlps Production in Insect High Five Cells via Adaptive Laboratory Evolution Correia, Ricardo Fernandes, Bárbara Alves, Paula M. Carrondo, Manuel J.T. Roldão, António Vaccines (Basel) Article The use of non-standard culture conditions has proven efficient to increase cell performance and recombinant protein production in different cell hosts. However, the establishment of high-producing cell populations through adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) has been poorly explored, in particular for insect cells. In this study, insect High Five cells were successfully adapted to grow at a neutral culture pH (7.0) through ALE for an improved production of influenza hemagglutinin (HA)-displaying virus-like particles (VLPs). A stepwise approach was used for the adaptation process, in which the culture pH gradually increased from standard 6.2 to 7.0 (ΔPh = 0.2–0.3), and cells were maintained at each pH value for 2–3 weeks until a constant growth rate and a cell viability over 95% were observed. These adapted cells enabled an increase in cell-specific HA productivity up to three-fold and volumetric HA titer of up to four-fold as compared to non-adapted cells. Of note, the adaptation process is the element driving increased specific HA productivity as a pH shift alone was inefficient at improving productivities. The production of HA-VLPs in adapted cells was successfully demonstrated at the bioreactor scale. The produced HA-VLPs show the typical size and morphology of influenza VLPs, thus confirming the null impact of the adaptation process and neutral culture pH on the quality of HA-VLPs produced. This work strengthens the potential of ALE as a bioprocess engineering strategy to improve the production of influenza HA-VLPs in insect High Five cells. MDPI 2020-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7711658/ /pubmed/33036359 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8040589 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Correia, Ricardo Fernandes, Bárbara Alves, Paula M. Carrondo, Manuel J.T. Roldão, António Improving Influenza HA-Vlps Production in Insect High Five Cells via Adaptive Laboratory Evolution |
title | Improving Influenza HA-Vlps Production in Insect High Five Cells via Adaptive Laboratory Evolution |
title_full | Improving Influenza HA-Vlps Production in Insect High Five Cells via Adaptive Laboratory Evolution |
title_fullStr | Improving Influenza HA-Vlps Production in Insect High Five Cells via Adaptive Laboratory Evolution |
title_full_unstemmed | Improving Influenza HA-Vlps Production in Insect High Five Cells via Adaptive Laboratory Evolution |
title_short | Improving Influenza HA-Vlps Production in Insect High Five Cells via Adaptive Laboratory Evolution |
title_sort | improving influenza ha-vlps production in insect high five cells via adaptive laboratory evolution |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7711658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33036359 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8040589 |
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