1. College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China 2. Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, China
Large-scale production of cell culture-based classical swine fever virus (CSFV) vaccine is hampered by the adverse reactions caused by contaminants from host cell and culture medium. Hence, we have developed an efficient method for purifying CSFV from cell-culture medium. Pure viral particles were obtained with two steps of tangential-flow filtration (TFF) and size-exclusion chromatography (SEC), and were compared with particles from ultracentrifugation by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), infectivity and recovery test, and real time fluorescent quantitative PCR (FQ-PCR). TFF concentrated the virus particles effectively with a retention rate of 98.5%, and 86.2% of viral particles were obtained from the ultrafiltration retentate through a Sepharose 4 F F column on a biological liquid chromatography system. CSFV purified by TFF-SEC or ultracentrifugation were both biologically active from 1.0×10−4.25 TCID50·mL−1 to 3.0×10−6.25 TCID50·mL−1, but the combination of TFF and SEC produced more pure virus particles than by ultracentrifugation alone. In addition, pure CSFV particles with the expected diameter of 40–60 nm were roughly spherical without any visible contamination. Mice immunized with CSFV purified by TFF-SEC produced higher antibody levels compared with immunization with ultracentrifugation-purified CSFV (P<0.05). The purification procedures in this study are reliable technically and feasible for purification of large volumes of viruses.
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