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Study of adsorption of virus-like particles on ion exchange surface by Dual polarization interferometry (DPI) (CAT#: STEM-MB-0463-WXH)

Introduction

Virus-like particles (VLPs) represent an important class of highly effective subunit vaccines. They are formed by self-assembled structural viral proteins that can mimic the overall structure and morphology of the virus particles, therefore the vaccines of VLPs are able to induce strong immune responses, and are much safer than viral vaccines. To date, several VLP vaccines have been approved for production and commercialization by regulatory agencies, and a number of VLP vaccine candidates are in clinical development.




Principle

Dual polarization interferometry (DPI) is an analytical technique that allows the simultaneous determination of thickness, density, and mass of a biological layer on a sensing waveguide surface in real time. DPI focuses laser light into two waveguides. One of these functions as the "sensing" waveguide having an exposed surface while the second one functions to maintain a reference beam. A two-dimensional interference pattern is formed in the far field by combining the light passing through the two waveguides. The DPI technique rotates the polarization of the laser, to alternately excite two polarization modes of the waveguides. Measurement of the interferogram for both polarizations allows both the refractive index and the thickness of the adsorbed layer to be calculated. These measurements can be used to infer conformational information about the molecular interactions taking place, as the molecule size (from the layer thickness) and the fold density (from the RI) change.

Applications

Study adsorption of virus-like particles on ion exchange surface.
Study the mechanism for the disassembling of VLPs on the solid liquid interface.
Vaccine development.

Procedure

1. Setting of dual polarization interferometry
2. Preparing the DPI sensor chip
3. Immobilization of target on DPI biosensor
4. Reagent was injected to react
5. Quantitative analysis

Materials

• DPI biosensor
• DPI sensor chip
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