
This, and its application for the purification of additional vaccine products led to uncommonly severe supply shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. This mode of separation has made the Capto Core resins highly desirable for LVV processing, including SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. Consequently, LVVs will flow through, and impurities will be removed from the product pool by adsorbing to the resin. Here, the inactive outer shell acts as a sieve allowing solutes below a molecular weight cut-off to diffuse into and bind to the functionalized inner bead, which displays a triple mode of action due to the octylamine ligand. Capto Core resin technology (Cytiva, Uppsala, Sweden) provides a unique mode of separation for the purification of LVVs. Hence, chromatography steps run in flowthrough mode may be preferred. LVV size, along with the accrued avidity of interactions with functionalized stationary phases, often leads to low binding capacities and recoveries when purified via bind and elute chromatography. The processing of live virus vaccines (LVVs) often requires the purification of large targets (>100 nm in diameter) that are more complex than many recombinant subunit protein therapeutics counterparts. This was the case during the development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate at the height of the pandemic. Īpart from cost savings, the re-use of chromatography resins can be a necessity in situations wherein supply limitations are in place. The number of cycles can vary from small to large in batch and continuous processes and column re-use in such processes requires the completion of studies validating the lifespan of chromatography media. This typically includes the deployment of multiple CIP agents, such as high conductivity and caustic solutions, aiming to remove tightly bound residuals from the resin that would otherwise lead to its fouling and to a potentially significant reduction of the resin's performance in purifying a target product over multiple cycles. The development of CIP strategies for biopharmaceuticals, such as monoclonal antibodies, has been reported for affinity, ion exchange, and hydrophobic interaction-ion exchange (e.g., ) resin modalities. Spearman's rank correlation coefficientĬost of goods for bioprocess is typically dominated by downstream processing and hence the implementation of cleaning in place (CIP) techniques for chromatography resins is important for mitigating the costs associated with the use of this unit operation.vesicular stomatitis virus phosphoprotein.vesicular stomatitis virus nucleoprotein protein.vesicular stomatitis virus matrix protein.vesicular stomatitis virus large polymerase.V vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein.flowthrough (effluent collected during column loading).dynamic binding capacity at 10% breakthrough.chromatography flowthrough product pool.Hence, the strategic combination of HT and laboratory-scale experiments can lead rapidly to robust CIP procedures, even for a challenging to clean resin, and thus help to overcome supply shortages. It is shown that the implementation of the CIP strategy enabled the re-use of the Capto Core 700 resin for up to 10 cycles without any negative impact on the purified product. Here, its impact was assessed across the entire purification process which also included an ultrafiltration/diafiltration step. The success of the CIP strategy was ultimately verified at the laboratory scale. The best performing conditions, comprised of 30% n-propanol and ≥0.75 N NaOH, were deployed in cycling experiments, completed with miniature chromatography columns, to demonstrate their effectiveness. Here, the deployment of high throughput (HT) techniques to screen CIP conditions for cleaning Capto Core 700 resin exposed to clarified cell culture harvest (CCCH) of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate produced in Vero adherent cell culture are described. During the development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, raw materials shortages, including chromatography resins, necessitated the determination of a cleaning in place (CIP) strategy for a multimodal core-shell resin both rapidly and efficiently.
