提高麻疹减毒活疫苗病毒滴度的研究

病毒滴度是麻疹减毒活疫苗的主要质量指标之一。本文结合生产实际,就有关提高麻疹疫苗病毒滴度的影响因素进行了探讨。试验说明,生产用毒种的质量十分重要,要保证麻疹疫苗的高滴度和生产的稳定,需要建立适合麻疹毒种的培养条件并保持培养条件一致,从而必须加强生产过程的全面质量管理。     

病毒疫苗:现有制品的使用及未来发展

<正>引言 病毒疫苗的发展和应用,在现代生物医学中取得了一些重大成就。天花已在全世界消灭,小儿麻痹症在工业发达国家已成为罕见疾病。其它儿童疾病,像麻疹、风疹和流行性腮腺炎在许多国家正在减少。 病毒疫苗的发展史,表现在离体培养病毒和测定病毒生化性方法的建立。最古老的病毒疫苗如抗天花、狂犬病和黄热病疫苗,是在动物体内培养病毒建立起来的。本世纪     

麻疹疫苗生产用毒株沪191增殖的动力学研究

通过延长麻疹病毒生产中感染的基质细胞培养时间并连续收获病毒,获得麻疹病毒生产的动力学曲线;通过工艺放大阶段的病毒增殖动力学研究,提高麻疹病毒产量。采用直接接种和间接接种法,接种不同感染量(MOI)的病毒,将转瓶培养单次收获改为转瓶培养多次收获,滴定整个培养期间每次收获液的病毒滴度,观察感染的细胞培养维持状况并计算病毒产量。结果表明,直接接种病毒培养期为20~25d,共收获病毒14~17次;间接接种病毒培养期24d,共收获病毒29次。通过延长感染细胞培养时间和连续收获病毒,获得病毒繁殖的动力学曲线。通过麻疹毒株的增殖动力学研究获得了麻疹疫苗生产毒株沪191增殖动力学相关参数。     

森林脑炎病毒地鼠肾细胞培养增殖动态及疫苗生产工艺改进的研究

为了解森林脑炎病毒的增殖动态,改进现有疫苗的工艺,将森林脑炎病毒感染地鼠肾细胞,控制不同的培养条件,以利病毒增殖,并于不同时间收获病毒液,测定病毒滴度。疫苗液用不同浓度的福尔马林灭活后,测定疫苗的保护指数。结果表明森张株病毒增殖高峰在68－72h,多次收获的病毒液及其病毒滴度、疫苗效力均优于现有疫苗,新工艺可提高病毒产量,为疫苗的精制纯人奠定了基础。     

2008—2012年麻疹减毒活疫苗的质量分析

目的对中国2008—2012年连续5年麻疹减毒活疫苗(简称麻疹疫苗)的批签发情况进行总结,评价其麻疹疫苗的总体质量。方法通过对送检样品的资料审查和关键项目的实验室检定,采用趋势分析法对病毒滴度等进行分析和比较,回顾麻疹疫苗质量的整体情况。结果中国麻疹疫苗整体质量较好,批签发通过率为98.6%。疫苗关键指标数据稳定,病毒滴度100%符合国家标准,其中8批疫苗病毒滴度由于超过警戒线企业主动撤检。结论中国麻疹减毒活疫苗的质量稳中有升。国家疫苗批签发程序对确保上市疫苗的质量发挥重要作用,趋势分析在批签发中的应用更加严格保证了上市疫苗的安全性和有效性。     

麻疹病毒分子流行病学研究进展

麻疹是可用麻疹疫苗预防的病毒性疾病,人类是该病毒的唯一宿主,其N、H基因存在着很高的核苷酸替代率。目前正是全球控制和消灭麻疹的关键时期,为监测和评估病毒蛋白抗原性和核苷酸潜在的变异,研究麻疹疫苗的病毒基因稳定性,探讨疫苗的保护效果,本文主要就麻疹病毒N、H蛋白分子流行病学研究进展作一综述。     

用蚀斑法进行麻疹疫苗的病毒滴定

按世界银行中国疫苗项目对麻疹疫苗检定的要求,建立了麻疹疫苗病毒滴定的蚀斑方法。以蚀斑法对Ｈｕ１９１株生产的冻干麻疹活疫苗样品进行了测定。结果发现,Ｈｕ１９１株生产的麻疹疫苗在琼脂和甲基纤维素覆盖下所形成的蚀斑大小及形状不同,但滴度无显著性差异;在室温和３７℃吸附的滴度无显著性差异,但细胞在３７℃生长较好;在本实验条件下,蚀斑滴定和ＣＣＩＤ５０测定的滴度呈正相关,蚀斑滴定相对较敏感;采用国产６孔聚苯乙稀培养板,Ｖｅｒｏ细胞单层,在３７℃吸附,用甲基纤维素覆盖,经结晶紫及甲醛固定染色后计数空斑,操作简便易行,结果特异敏感,重复性好,可用于麻疹疫苗病毒滴定     

杭州地区婴儿麻疹流行特征与疫苗接种史的相关性分析

本文旨在探讨当前我国麻疹疫苗接种程序下的婴儿麻疹流行特征,为改进麻疹疫苗接种策略提供科学依据。利用麻疹监测系统,对杭州市2004～2007年婴儿麻疹发病的分布和疫苗免疫状况进行分析,发现婴儿麻疹发病率无明显城乡差异,发病季节主要集中在3～5月,发病年龄主要集中在5～9月龄。≤8月龄病例以常住儿童为主,≥9月龄病例以流动儿童为主。≥9月龄麻疹病例中,常住儿童所占比例低于流动儿童,而其麻疹疫苗接种率(47.5%)明显高于流动儿童(14.3%),两者有显著差异(χ2=11.75,P0.01)。因此,为进一步降低婴儿麻疹发病率,需加强流动儿童的麻疹疫苗补种;另外,建议将麻疹疫苗初次免疫时间提前至6月龄,这可能有助于降低婴儿麻疹发病率。     

ELISA法检测疫苗中牛血清残留量的适用性研究

为了验证ELISA法对病毒性疫苗中残余牛血清蛋白检测的适用性,用牛血清蛋白ELISA测定法与牛血清白蛋白ELISA测定法、牛血清IgG-ELISA测定法对麻疹疫苗、风疹疫苗、腮腺炎疫苗洗涤前病毒培养液、洗涤后病毒收获液以及多种成品疫苗中的残余牛血清蛋白含量进行了测定。结果显示,麻疹疫苗、风疹疫苗、腮腺炎疫苗洗涤前病毒培养液中牛血清白蛋白含量依次为IgG含量的70.5倍、65倍、84.3倍,洗涤后病毒收获液中两者比值分别为4.2、1.8和8.1;牛血清白蛋白ELISA法和牛血清蛋白ELISA法均能检测出疫苗中牛血清白蛋白,但前者测不出牛血清IgG,而后者可准确检测牛血清IgG。牛血清蛋白ELISA测定法可同时检测牛血清白蛋白和牛血清IgG,更适用于疫苗残余牛血清蛋白含量的测定。     

提高病毒疫苗抗原产量的策略

疫苗接种是预防传染病的一种重要策略。然而,目前许多疫苗在生产过程中存在抗原产量偏低的问题,由此导致疫苗的生产成本较高、有效抗原含量低和免疫效果差等问题。为此,研究人员尝试了不同策略来提高病毒疫苗抗原的产量,以改进疫苗的质量并降低生产成本。文中总结了近年来提高疫苗中病毒抗原产量的主要方法,包括改造病毒基因、改善病毒对细胞的适应性、优化抗原表达体系、改进疫苗生产工艺等方面。并分析了不同策略的优点和存在的问题,提出了提高疫苗抗原产量的一些设想。     

Screening different host cell lines for the dynamic production of measles virus

Measles virus (MV) has a natural affinity for cancer cells and oncolytic MV preparations have therefore been investigated in several clinical trials as a potential treatment for cancer. The main bottleneck in the administration of oncolytic MV to cancer patients is the production process, because very large doses of virus particles are required for each treatment. Here, we investigated the productivity of different host cells and found that a high infection efficiency did not necessarily result in high virus yields because virus release is also dependent on the host cell. As well as producing large numbers of active MV particles, host cells must perform well in dynamic cultivation systems. In screening experiments, the highest productivity was achieved by Vero and BJAB cells, but only the Vero cells maintained their high virus productivity when transferred to a stirred tank reactor. We used dielectric spectroscopy as an online monitoring system to control the infection and harvest times, which are known to be critical process parameters. The precise control of these parameters allowed us to achieve higher virus titers with Vero cells in a stirred tank reactor than in a static cultivation system based on T‐flasks, with maximum titers of up to 10¹¹ TCID₅₀ ml^?1. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 33:989–997, 2017     

麻疹病毒沪191对HeLa肿瘤细胞抑制作用的体内外实验研究

研究麻疹病毒减毒疫苗沪191株(MV沪191)在组织培养中和裸鼠体内对HeLa肿瘤细胞的抑制作用.用空斑实验测定MV沪191感染HeLa细胞后细胞裂解液中病毒量;用MTF试验测定MV沪191感染对细胞活性的影响;用流式细胞仪分析测定MV沪191感染引起的细胞凋亡和对细胞周期的影响;HeLa肿瘤细胞背部皮下接种BALB/C裸鼠引起的肿瘤,评估MV沪191体内抑瘤作用.MV沪191感染HeLa细胞后可引起广泛的CPE,感染的HeLa细胞与对照组相比细胞活性明显降低.MV沪191感染HeLa细胞后随着时间延长,G1/G0细胞率明显增多,S期率明显减少,细胞凋亡率明显增加(P＜0.01).给药第60天时瘤内治疗组、静脉治疗组和对照组肿瘤体积平均分别为15.5、64.6、156.4 mm3.瘤内治疗组与对照组相比有显著差异(P＜0.01);静脉治疗组与对照组相比有明显差异(P＜0.05).MV沪191减毒株在组织培养中和裸鼠体内对HeLa肿瘤有明显的杀伤作用.     

Measles virus infection in a transgenic model: virus-induced immunosuppression and central nervous system disease.

Measles virus (MV) infects 40 million persons and kills one million per year primarily by suppressing the immune system and afflicting the central nervous system (CNS). The lack of a suitable small animal model has impeded progress of understanding how MV causes disease and the development of novel therapies and improved vaccines. We tested a transgenic mouse line in which expression of the MV receptor CD46 closely mimicked the location and amount of CD46 found in humans. Virus replicated in and was recovered from these animals' immune systems and was associated with suppression of humoral and cellular immune responses. Infectious virus was recovered from the CNS, replicated primarily in neurons, and spread to distal sites presumably by fast axonal transport. Thus, a small animal model is available for analysis of MV pathogenesis.     

Translational inhibition and increased interferon induction in cells infected with C protein-deficient measles virus

In addition to the phosphoprotein, the P gene of measles virus (MV) also encodes the V and C proteins by an RNA editing process and by alternative initiation of translation in a different reading frame, respectively. Although the MV C protein is required for efficient MV replication in vivo and in some cultured cells, its exact functions in virus infection are currently unclear. Here, we report that a recombinant MV lacking the C protein (MVDeltaC) grew poorly in a human cell line possessing the intact interferon (IFN) pathway and that this growth defect was associated with reduced viral translation and genome replication. The translational inhibition was correlated with phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2. Moreover, increased IFN induction was observed in MVDeltaC-infected cells. The NS1 protein of influenza virus, which binds to double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and consequently inhibits IFN induction and dsRNA-dependent protein kinase activation, complemented the growth defect of MVDeltaC. These results indicate that the MV C protein inhibits IFN induction and modulates host antiviral responses, thereby ensuring MV growth in host cells.     

Proteolytic cleavage of the fusion protein but not membrane fusion is required for measles virus-induced immunosuppression in vitro

Immunosuppression induced by measles virus (MV) is associated with unresponsiveness of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) to mitogenic stimulation ex vivo and in vitro. In mixed lymphocyte cultures and in an experimental animal model, the expression of the MV glycoproteins on the surface of UV-inactivated MV particles, MV-infected cells, or cells transfected to coexpress the MV fusion (F) and the hemagglutinin (H) proteins was found to be necessary and sufficient for this phenomenon. We now show that MV fusion-inhibitory peptides do not interfere with the induction of immunosuppression in vitro, indicating that MV F-H-mediated fusion is essentially not involved in this process. Proteolytic cleavage of MV F(0) protein by cellular proteases, such as furin, into the F(1)-F(2) subunits is, however, an absolute requirement, since (i) the inhibitory activity of MV-infected BJAB cells was significantly impaired in the presence of a furin-inhibitory peptide and (ii) cells expressing or viruses containing uncleaved F(0) proteins revealed a strongly reduced inhibitory activity which was improved following trypsin treatment. The low inhibitory activity of effector structures containing mainly F(0) proteins was not due to an impaired F(0)-H interaction, since both surface expression and cocapping efficiencies were similar to those found with the authentic MV F and H proteins. These results indicate that the fusogenic activity of the MV F-H complexes can be uncoupled from their immunosuppressive activity and that the immunosuppressive domains of these proteins are exposed only after proteolytic activation of the MV F(0) protein.     

CD46 expression does not overcome the intracellular block of measles virus replication in transgenic rats.

The study of measles pathogenesis and the testing of improved vaccine candidates is hampered by the lack of a small animal model which is susceptible to infection by the intranasal route. With the identification of CD46 as a measles virus (MV) receptor, it was feasible to generate transgenic rats to overcome this problem. Although there was widespread expression of CD46 in the transgenic Sprague-Dawley rats, no measles-like disease could be induced after various routes of infection. The expressed transgenic protein was functionally intact since it mediated MV fusion and was downregulated by contact with MV hemagglutinin. In vitro studies revealed that CD46-expressing rat fibroblasts take up MV but do not allow viral replication, which explains the nonpermissiveness of the transgenic rats for in vivo infection.     

A Prominent Role for DC-SIGN+ Dendritic Cells in Initiation and Dissemination of Measles Virus Infection in Non-Human Primates

Measles virus (MV) is a highly contagious virus that is transmitted by aerosols. During systemic infection, CD150⁺ T and B lymphocytes in blood and lymphoid tissues are the main cells infected by pathogenic MV. However, it is unclear which cell types are the primary targets for MV in the lungs and how the virus reaches the lymphoid tissues. In vitro studies have shown that dendritic cell (DC) C-type lectin DC-SIGN captures MV, leading to infection of DCs as well as transmission to lymphocytes. However, evidence of DC-SIGN-mediated transmission in vivo has not been established. Here we identified DC-SIGN^hi DCs as first target cells in vivo and demonstrate that macaque DC-SIGN functions as an attachment receptor for MV. Notably, DC-SIGN^hi cells from macaque broncho-alveolar lavage and lymph nodes transmit MV to B lymphocytes, providing in vivo support for an important role for DCs in both initiation and dissemination of MV infection.     

Enhanced measles virus cDNA rescue and gene expression after heat shock

Rescue of negative-stranded RNA viruses from full-length genomic cDNA clones is an essential technology for genetic analysis of this class of viruses. Using this technology in our studies of measles virus (MV), we found that the efficiency of the measles virus rescue procedure (F. Radecke et al., EMBO J. 14:5773-5784, 1995) could be improved by modifying the procedure in two ways. First, we found that coculture of transfected 293-3-46 cells with a monolayer of Vero cells increased the number of virus-producing cultures about 20-fold. Second, we determined that heat shock treatment increased the average number of transfected cultures that produced virus another two- to threefold. In addition, heat shock increased the number of plaques produced by positive cultures. The effect of heat shock on rescue led us to test the effect on transient expression from an MV minireplicon. Heat shock increased the level of reporter gene expression when either minireplicon DNA or RNA was used regardless of whether complementation was provided by cotransfection with expression plasmids or infection with MV helper virus. In addition, we found that MV minireplicon gene expression could be stimulated by cotransfection with an Hsp72 expression plasmid, indicating that hsp72 likely plays a role in the effect of heat shock.     

Measles virus structural components are enriched into lipid raft microdomains: a potential cellular location for virus assembly

The process of measles virus (MV) assembly and subsequent budding is thought to occur in localized regions of the plasma membrane, to favor specific incorporation of viral components, and to facilitate the exclusion of host proteins. We demonstrate that during the course of virus replication, a significant proportion of MV structural proteins were selectively enriched in the detergent-resistant glycosphingolipids and cholesterol-rich membranes (rafts). Isolated rafts could infect the cell through a membrane fusion step and thus contained all of the components required to create a functional virion. However, they could be distinguished from the mature virions with regards to density and Triton X-100 resistance behavior. We further show that raft localization of the viral internal nucleoprotein and matrix protein was independent of the envelope glycoproteins, indicating that raft membranes could provide a platform for MV assembly. Finally, at least part of the raft MV components were included in the viral particle during the budding process. Taken together, these results strongly suggest a role for raft membranes in the processes of MV assembly and budding.     

Engineered serine protease inhibitor prevents furin-catalyzed activation of the fusion glycoprotein and production of infectious measles virus.

We have identified the major cellular endoprotease that activates the fusion (F) glycoprotein of measles virus (MV) and have engineered a serine protease inhibitor (serpin) to target the endoprotease and inhibit the production of infectious MV. The F-protein precursor of MV was not cleaved efficiently into the mature F protein in human colon carcinoma cells lacking functional furin, indicating that furin is the major enzyme responsible for activation of the MV F protein. A human serpin alpha 1-antitrypsin variant was engineered to specifically inhibit furin. When expressed from a recombinant vaccinia virus in primate cells infected by MV, the engineered serpin (alpha 1-PDX) specifically inhibited furin-catalyzed cleavage of the F-protein precursor without affecting synthesis of other MV proteins. We generated human glioma cells stably expressing alpha 1-PDX. MV infection in these cells did not result in syncytia. The infected cells produced all the MV proteins, but the F-protein precursor remained largely uncleaved. This did not prevent virus assembly. However, the released virions contained inactive F-protein precursor rather than mature F protein, and infectious-virus titers were reduced by 3 to 4 orders of magnitude. These results show that a mature F protein is not required for the assembly of MV but is crucial for virus infectivity. The engineered serpin may offer a novel molecular antiviral approach against MV.