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ArticleVaccines2020

Rapid High-Yield Production of Functional SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Binding Domain by Viral and Non-Viral Transient Expression for Pre-Clinical Evaluation.

Omar Farnós, Alina Venereo-Sánchez, Xingge Xu, Cindy Chan, Shantoshini Dash, Hanan Chaabane, Janelle Sauvageau, Fouad Brahimi, Uri Saragovi, Denis Leclerc and 1 more

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Article in Vaccines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Omar FarnósViral Vectors and Vaccines Bioprocessing Group, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1295-8323
Alina Venereo-SánchezViral Vectors and Vaccines Bioprocessing Group, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada.
Xingge XuViral Vectors and Vaccines Bioprocessing Group, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada.
Cindy ChanViral Vectors and Vaccines Bioprocessing Group, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada.
Shantoshini DashViral Vectors and Vaccines Bioprocessing Group, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada.
Hanan ChaabaneViral Vectors and Vaccines Bioprocessing Group, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada.
Janelle SauvageauHuman Health Therapeutics, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada.
Fouad BrahimiLady Davis Institute-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada.
Uri SaragoviLady Davis Institute-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6884-8815
Denis LeclercDépartement de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et d'immunologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9323-1638
Amine A KamenViral Vectors and Vaccines Bioprocessing Group, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0E9, Canada.
McGill University · CAJewish General Hospital · CANational Research Council Canada · CAUniversité Laval · CA

Funding

Canada Foundation for Innovation 32904Canada Research Chairs CRC-240394CIHR OV5-170348
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccine design strategies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are focused on the Spike protein or its subunits as the main antigen target of neutralizing antibodies. In this work, we propose rapid production methods of an extended segment of the Spike Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) in HEK293SF cells cultured in suspension, in serum-free media, as a major component of a COVID-19 subunit vaccine under development. The expression of RBD, engineered with a sortase-recognition motif for protein-based carrier coupling, was achieved at high yields by plasmid transient transfection or human type-5-adenoviral infection of the cells, in a period of only two and three weeks, respectively. Both production methods were evaluated in 3L-controlled bioreactors with upstream and downstream bioprocess improvements, resulting in a product recovery with over 95% purity. Adenoviral infection led to over 100 µg/mL of RBD in culture supernatants, which was around 7-fold higher than levels obtained in transfected cultures. The monosaccharide and sialic acid content was similar in the RBD protein from the two production approaches. It also exhibited a proper conformational structure as recognized by monoclonal antibodies directed against key native Spike epitopes. Efficient direct binding to ACE2 was also demonstrated at similar levels in RBD obtained from both methods and from different production lots. Overall, we provide bioprocess-related data for the rapid, scalable manufacturing of low cost RBD based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, with the added value of making a functional antigen available to support further research on uncovering mechanisms of virus binding and entry as well as screening for potential COVID-19 therapeutics.

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bioreactorCOVID-19 vaccineHEK293SF suspension cellsRBDSARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor Binding Domainvaccine bioprocess

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PMID33158147
PMCPMC7712309
OpenAlexW3095073252

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