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VACCINES
Volume 11, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines11081364
Keywords
vaccine; eggs; high yield; influenza A virus
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Researchers have introduced random mutations into the influenza A virus backbone to select variants with increased replicative ability. They have identified a strain that exhibits higher influenza virus growth and higher virus titers in embryonated chicken eggs, which is a crucial finding for vaccine manufacturers.
Vaccination is an efficient approach to preventing influenza virus infections. Recently, we developed influenza A and B virus vaccine backbones that increased the yield of several vaccine viruses in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) and African green monkey kidney (Vero) cells. These vaccine backbones also increased viral replication in embryonated chicken eggs, which are the most frequently used platform for influenza vaccine manufacturing. In this study, to further increase the viral titers in embryonated chicken eggs, we introduced random mutations into the 'internal genes' (i.e., all influenza viral genes except those encoding the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins) of the influenza A virus high-yield virus backbone we developed previously. The randomly mutated viruses were sequentially passaged in embryonated chicken eggs to select variants with increased replicative ability. We identified a candidate that conferred higher influenza virus growth than the high-yield parental virus backbone. Although the observed increases in virus growth may be considered small, they are highly relevant for vaccine manufacturers.
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