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Biologics manufacturing is increasingly moving toward intensified processes that require novel control strategies in order to achieve higher titers in shorter periods of time compared to traditional fed-batch cultures. In order to implement these strategies for intensified processes, continuous process monitoring is often required. To this end, inline Raman spectroscopy was used to develop partial least squares models to monitor changes in residual concentrations of glucose, phenylalanine and methionine during the culture of five different glutamine synthetase piggyBac® Chinese hamster ovary clones cultured using an intensified high inoculation density fed-batch platform process. Continuous monitoring of residual metabolite concentrations facilitated automated feed-rate adjustment of three supplemental feeds to maintain glucose, phenylalanine, and methionine at desired setpoints, while maintaining other nutrient concentrations at acceptable levels across all clones cultured on the high inoculation density platform process. Furthermore, all clones cultured on this process achieved high viable cell concentrations over the course of culture, indicating no detrimental impacts from the proposed feeding strategy. Finally, the automated control strategy sustained cultures inoculated at high cell densities to achieve product concentrations between 5 and 8.3 g/L over the course of 12 days of culture.
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Webster, T.A., Hadley, B.C., Dickson, M. et al. Automated Raman feed-back control of multiple supplemental feeds to enable an intensified high inoculation density fed-batch platform process. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 46, 1457–1470 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-023-02912-2
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