Strategies for Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus(TGEV) Vaccine Production by Swine testicle cells

TGE (Transmissible Gastroenteritis) caused by a virus belonging to family coronavirus, results in an acute infection of the small intestine of the pig. The optimum operation variables such as multiplicity of infection (MOI), infection time and harvest time were investigated for TGE vaccine production by immobilized ST(swine testicle) cells. In the culture supplemented with 5% serum, maximum virus titer of $1.2{\times}10^6pfu/ml$ was obtained at the conditions of 0.01 MOI, 2day infection time, and 1 day harvest time. Serum is a potential source of bacterial, mycoplasmal and viral contamination, and it has a possibility of the introduction of serum proteins, prion and pyrogens into the final product. For these reasons, much attention has been focused on the development of serum-free media. A new serum-free media (SFM) has been developed in order to produce TGE vaccine of high quality with low cost. The performance of SFM developed was compared with other commercially available serum-free media and serum supplemented media in terms of virus productivity. The cultures with serum-free media showed higher titer than that with serum supplemented media. Among various serum-free media tested, CHO-S-SFMII showed highest virus titer.

본 연구에서는 생물반응기에서 효율적으로 돼지 전염성 백신을 생산하기 위해 swine testicle cell을 host cell로 하는 백신 생산 시스템을 확립하였고, 이를 위한 최적 MOI, 최적 감염시기, 최적 수확시기 등 백신 생산 조건을 확립하였다. 또한 보다 안전한 백신 생산을 위해 통계적 방법에 의해 무 혈청 배지를 개발하였고 백신 생산 면에서의 가장 우수한 무 혈청 배지를 선정하였다.