Conference Dates
June 12 – 17, 2022
Abstract
Yellow fever (YF) is an hemorrhagic viral disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes, which is endemic in many African and Central/South American countries. The severe symptoms and the high mortality rate of the disease can have devastating effects in case an outbreak occurs in an area where the population is non-vaccinated. Before the current YF vaccine became available, outbreaks in cities like Barcelona (Spain) and Philadelphia (USA) led to the death of approximately 10% of the population. Recent outbreaks have shown that YF continues to be a major public health threat due to production capability issues and shortage of vaccine stockpiles, which even led to the use of an emergency fractional (1/5) dose in Africa in 2016 and in Brazil in 2018. Yellow fever virus-like particles (VLPs) represent an interesting alternative to develop a new YF vaccine.
With the aim of developing an efficient and affordable process to purifiy yellow fever VLPs, in this work we developed a multimodal strategy combining cation exchange (CEX) and steric exclusion chromatography (SXC) under conditions where the product of interest does not bind to the CEX adsorber, whereas many contaminants do. In this way, the product of interest is retained just due to steric exclusion by the polyethylene glycol (PEG) added to the mobile phase. Product desorption can be achieved by decreasing PEG concentration, while contaminants remain bound to the adsorber and are eluted in the regeneration step. To the best of our knowledge, the application of such a multimodal strategy has not been published before.
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Recommended Citation
Túlio M. Lima, Ricardo A. Medronho, and Leda R. Castilho, "Multimodal chromatography combining steric exclusion and cation exchange as an intermediate downstream step to purify yellow fever virus-like particles" in "Vaccine Technology VIII", Tarit Mukhopadhyay, Merck Research Laboratories, USA; Charles Lutsch, Sanofi Pasteur, France; Linda Hwee-Lin Lua, University of Queensland, Australia; Francesc Godia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Eds, ECI Symposium Series, (2022). https://dc.engconfintl.org/vaccine_viii/53