Vaccines (Jun 2022)

Methodology of Purification of Inactivated Cell-Culture-Grown SARS-CoV-2 Using Size-Exclusion Chromatography

  • Anastasia A. Kovpak,
  • Anastasia N. Piniaeva,
  • Oleg A. Gerasimov,
  • Irina O. Tcelykh,
  • Mayya Y. Ermakova,
  • Anna N. Zyrina,
  • Dmitry V. Danilov,
  • Yury Y. Ivin,
  • Liubov I. Kozlovskaya,
  • Aydar A. Ishmukhametov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10060949
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 6
p. 949

Abstract

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Various types of COVID-19 vaccines, including adenovirus, mRNA, and inactivated ones, have been developed and approved for clinical use worldwide. Inactivated vaccines are produced using a proven technology that is widely used for the production of vaccines for the prevention and control of infectious diseases, including influenza and poliomyelitis. The development of inactivated whole-virion vaccines commonly includes several stages: the production of cellular and viral biomass in cell culture; inactivation of the virus; filtration and ultrafiltration; chromatographic purification of the viral antigen; and formulation with stabilizers and adjuvants. In this study, the suitability of four resins for Size-Exclusion Chromatography was investigated for the purification of a viral antigen for the human COVID-19 vaccine.

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