In-situ and sensitive stability study of emulsion and aluminum adjuvanted inactivated foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine by differential scanning fluorimetry analysis.

Vaccine
Yanmin SongSongping Zhang

Abstract

Adjuvants are important to enhance the antigens immunogenicity, but may also alter the structures of antigens. Currently off-line methods for adjuvants induced antigen alteration suffer from incomplete release and possible structural alteration of antigens. Here we investigated the differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) as an in-situ and high-throughput strategy to analyze the stability of inactivated foot-and-mouth disease virus (iFMDV), known as 146S, in three representative adjuvants including aluminum hydroxide (AH), oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion, and water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion. Under optimized DSF conditions, the Tm referring to 146S dissociation can be detected in all three adjuvants. Using SYBR Green II as fluorescent dye enables detection of iFMDV as low as 5 μg/mL. By comparing the Tm in different pH, three adjuvants showed different effects on 146S. Screening for excipients was successfully conducted using DSF. Sugars and glycerol increased the Tm of iFMDV in all three adjuvants, but to different degree. The stabilization by 20% (w/v) sucrose and glycerol was further verified by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and high performance size exclusion chromatography (HPSEC). DSF is proved also applicative for low-pu...Continue Reading

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