Preparation of the candidate first Chinese national standard for oncolytic activity assay of herpes simplex virus type 1
Objective:To establish the first national standard for oncolytic activity assay of herpes simplex virus type 1(HSV-1).Methods:According to the requirements in Chinese Pharmacopoeia(Volume Ⅲ,2020 edi-tion),the liquid and freeze-dried standard for oncolytic activity of HSV-1 were prepared and tested,of which the stability were evaluated by thermal acceleration test.The oncolytic activity of the standard was calibrated col-laboratively by U-2 OS cells/CCK-8 method in 3 laboratories.The liquid standard was compared with the freeze-dried standard,and the more suitable one was selected as the national standard.Results:The prepared standard substance was all qualified,among which the moisture content of the freeze-dried standard was 1.09%and the dispensing accuracy was 0.15%.The results of stability test were calculated by Arrhenius formula.It was preliminarily predicted that it would take 7.7 years for the oncolytic activity of liquid standard to decrease by 10%at-70 ℃,and it would take 6.1 × 105 years for the oncolytic activity of lyophilized standard to decrease by 10%at-70 ℃.Compared with liquid standard,the stability of lyophilized standard was greatly improved.Twenty-one times of collaborative calibration tests by 3 laboratories showed that the oncolytic activity liquid standard was 7.08 × 104 U·mL-1 and the oncolytic activity liquid standard was 1.82 × 104 U·vial-1.After lyophilized,the oncolytic activity of the bulk of HSV-1 standard decreased from 7.08 × 104 U·mL-1 to 3.03 × 104 U·mL-1.However,the good S-shaped dose-response curve still appeared after 100 times of pre-dilution,which did not affect the requirements of its use as a standard.When the liquid standard was used as the sample and the freeze-dried standard was used as the standard for calibration,the geometric coefficient of variation(GCV)of the results of the 3 laboratories decreased from 64.4%to 29.2%,and the precision of the experiment was greatly improved.Conclusion:The batch of freeze-dried HSV-1 standards for oncolytic activity assay meets the relavant require-ments,and is more suitable for use as a national standard than liquid standards.Its oncolytic activity is assigned a value of 1.82 × 104 U·vial-1.
herpes simplex virus type 1(HSV-1)U-2 OS cells/CCK-8 methodoncolytic activitystandard substancefreeze-dryingstability