Journal
CYTOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 6, Pages 543-552Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10616-011-9387-0
Keywords
Shear rate; Insect cell; Baculovirus; Damage; Spodoptera; Turbulence
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- Junta de Andalucia
- Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnologia [BIOANDALUS 0.8/2/L1.2]
- Biocolor, S.L.
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As chemical pesticides are being banned as control agents for agricultural pests, the use of the highly specific, safe to non-target organisms baculoviruses has been proposed. These viruses can be produced either in vivo or in vitro. In vitro production requires appropriated host insect cell lines with the ability for growing as freely-suspended cells. In this work, the Spodoptera exigua Se301 cell line was used to produce the commercially available S. exigua nucleopolyhedrovirus (SeMNPV) in suspension. Se301 cells showed to be very sensitive to the hydrodynamic shear rates developed in bioreactors. A process of progressive adaptation to freely-suspended cultures using protective additives against shear stress and disaggregant was proposed. The best combinations were polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) or polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) with the disaggregant dextran sulfate (DS). Both static and freely-suspended Se301 cell cultures were successfully infected with the SeMNPV baculovirus. Production of occluded baculovirus (OB) increased with the multiplicity of infection (MOI > 0.1).
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