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. 2022 Aug;119(8):2115-2121.
doi: 10.1002/bit.28117. Epub 2022 Jun 20.

Continuous low pH viral inactivation: Operation and scaling strategy informs viral clearance study

Matthew Brown  1 , Scott Godfrey  2 , Arch Creasy  3 , Jeffery Salm  3 , Robert Fahrner  4
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Continuous low pH viral inactivation: Operation and scaling strategy informs viral clearance study

Matthew Brown et al. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2022 Aug.

Abstract

A continuous viral inactivation (CVI) tubular reactor was designed for low pH viral inactivation within a continuous downstream system across multiple scales of operation. The reactors were designed to provide a minimum residence time of >60 min. The efficacy of this tubular reactor was tested with xenotropic murine leukemia virus (X-MuLV) through pulse injection experiments. It was determined that the minimum residence time of the small-scale reactor design, when operated at the target process flow rate, occurred between 63 and 67 min. Inactivation kinetics were compared between continuous operation and standard batch practices using three monoclonal antibodies. The quantification of the virus log reduction values (LRV) was similar between the two modes of operation and most of the acid-treated samples had virus concentrations below the limit of detection. However, residual infectivity was still present in the endpoint batch samples of two experiments while the continuous samples always remained below the limit of detection. This provides the foundation for leveraging a standard batch-based model to quantify the LRV for a CVI unit operation.

Keywords: Dean vortices; continuous manufacturing; scale down; scale up; viral inactivation.

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