In vitro analytics
for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical quality control

Purity testing of bacte­rial cell banks (prokary­otic cell banks)

  • Identity‑, purity- and quality testing of micro­bial cell banks, living biother­a­peutic prod­ucts and ther­a­peutic bacte­rio­phage preparations
  • Detec­tion and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of adven­ti­tious micro­bial contaminants
  • Bacte­rio­phage pres­ence test for moni­toring and control of bacte­rio­phage cont­a­m­i­na­tions in bio production
  • Viability
  • Bacte­rial strain char­ac­ter­i­sa­tion (produc­tion strains)
  • Geno­typing / pheno­typing (e.g. RFLP, RADP finger­printing, phage typing, biochem­ical iden­ti­fi­ca­tion by API 20E, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion by 16S rDNA or ITS sequencing)
  • Plasmid copy number
  • Plasmid reten­tion (plasmid stability)
  • Veri­fi­ca­tion of consis­tency of the coding sequence of the expres­sion constructs (PCR and sequencing)

Bacte­rio­phage pres­ence test in bacte­rial cell banks and fermen­ta­tion samples (vali­dated for E. coli)

  • Detec­tion of viru­lent bacte­rio­phages (lytic repli­ca­tion cycle)
  • Detec­tion of temperate bacte­rio­phages (lyso­genic repli­ca­tion cycle)
  • Detec­tion of prophages
  • Phage iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and bacte­rio­phage pres­ence tests for species other than E. coli can be devel­oped and vali­dated upon request

Produc­tion and safety testing of eukary­otic cell banks

  • Produc­tion of eukary­otic master and working cell banks
    • GMP-compliant expan­sion of the expres­sion line
    • Produc­tion of the master and working cell bank (100 vials)
    • Cell iden­tity testing by means of DNA fingerprinting
    • Cryop­reser­va­tion in liquid nitrogen
    • GMP compliant safety testing of the expres­sion cell line 
      • Sterility, mycoplasma, cell viability, doubling rate, expres­sion level
  • Detec­tion of viral cont­a­m­i­na­tion in cell culture models MCB/WCB (Adven­ti­tious Agents in vitro Ph. Eur. 2.6.16 / 5.2.3
    • Guide­line-compliant indi­cator cell lines: e.g. VERO 6, MRC‑5, A549, HeLa, HEK-293, CHO, MDCK
    • Typical test viruses: e.g. Influenza A, HSV‑1, SV40, Adenovirus
    • Testing over a period of 14 and 28 days
    • Detec­tion of cyto­pathic effect (CPE), haemad­sorp­tion (HAD) and haemag­glu­ti­na­tion (HA)
    • Detec­tion of animal pathogens (9CFR testing)
  • Adven­ti­tious agents qPCR based
    • Human respi­ra­tory syncy­tial virus (HRSV) of type A and type B
    • Human papil­loma virus (HPV)
    • Human hepatitis virus (HAV / HBV / HCV)
    • Influenza (type A / B / C)
    • Coro­n­avirus (SARS-CoV‑2 / 229E / OC43)
    • Human Cytomegalovirus (hCMV / HHV‑5)
    • Detec­tion of other viruses upon request
  • Detec­tion of retroviruses
    • qPCR method: product ampli­fied reverse tran­scrip­tase (F‑PERT)
    • in vitro method: S+ L- assay
  • Detec­tion of the infec­tious capacity of viral vaccines
    • Testing of the produc­tion lines
    • Detec­tion by flow cytometry
    • Deter­mi­na­tion of the TCID50
    • Deter­mi­na­tion of the expres­sion of the genetic insert
  • Repli­ca­tion-Compe­tent Virus Testing
    • Guide­line compliant limits (e.g. > 1 ifu among 3 × 10E10 viral parti­cles for Aden­ovirus RCA)
    • Detec­tion: cytophatic effect, immuno­cy­to­chem­istry, qPCR

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