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Bozzo GG, Unterlander N. In through the out door: Biochemical mechanisms affecting flavonoid glycoside catabolism in plants. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 308:110904. [PMID: 34034864 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2021.110904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 03/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Plants are the sole source of flavonoids, a chemical category that includes flavonols. For the most part, flavonols occur as glycosides with numerous postulated biological roles in plants, including photoprotection, modulation of hormone translocation, and sequestration of reactive oxygen species. Flavonol glycosides are often considered as dead-end metabolites because related flavonoids (i.e., anthocyanins) occur in terminal tissues such as flowers and fruit, but recent evidence points to their turnover in planta, including developing photosynthetic tissues. Although microbial degradation pathways for flavonol glycosides of plant origin are well described, plant catabolic pathways are little studied by comparison. This review will address our current understanding of biochemical processes leading to the loss of flavonol glycosides in plants, with a specific emphasis on the evidence for flavonol-specific β-glucosidases. Complete elucidation of these catabolic pathways is dependent on the identification of regiospecific modifying steps, including enzymes associated with the hydrolysis of rhamnosylated flavonols, as well as flavonol peroxidation and their encoding genes. Herein, we highlight challenges for the identification of hypothetical plant α-rhamnosidases and peroxidases involved in flavonol glycoside degradation, and the potential biological role of this catabolism in mitigating oxidative stress in developing and postharvest plant tissues.
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- Gale G Bozzo
- Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd E., Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada.
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- Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd E., Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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Gifford I, Battenberg K, Vaniya A, Wilson A, Tian L, Fiehn O, Berry AM. Distinctive Patterns of Flavonoid Biosynthesis in Roots and Nodules of Datisca glomerata and Medicago spp. Revealed by Metabolomic and Gene Expression Profiles. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1463. [PMID: 30364174 PMCID: PMC6192435 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Plants within the Nitrogen-fixing Clade (NFC) of Angiosperms form root nodule symbioses with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Actinorhizal plants (in Cucurbitales, Fagales, Rosales) form symbioses with the actinobacteria Frankia while legumes (Fabales) form symbioses with proteobacterial rhizobia. Flavonoids, secondary metabolites of the phenylpropanoid pathway, have been shown to play major roles in legume root nodule symbioses: as signal molecules that in turn trigger rhizobial nodulation initiation signals and acting as polar auxin transport inhibitors, enabling a key step in nodule organogenesis. To explore a potentially broader role for flavonoids in root nodule symbioses across the NFC, we combined metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of roots and nodules of the actinorhizal host Datisca glomerata and legumes of the genus Medicago. Patterns of biosynthetic pathways were inferred from flavonoid metabolite profiles and phenylpropanoid gene expression patterns in the two hosts to identify similarities and differences. Similar classes of flavonoids were represented in both hosts, and an increase in flavonoids generally in the nodules was observed, with differences in flavonoids prominent in each host. While both hosts produced derivatives of naringenin, the metabolite profile in D. glomerata indicated an emphasis on the pinocembrin biosynthetic pathway, and an abundance of flavonols with potential roles in symbiosis. Additionally, the gene expression profile indicated a decrease in expression in the lignin/monolignol pathway. In Medicago sativa, by contrast, isoflavonoids were highly abundant featuring more diverse and derived isoflavonoids than D. glomerata. Gene expression patterns supported these differences in metabolic pathways, especially evident in a difference in expression of cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase (C4H), which was expressed at substantially lower levels in D. glomerata than in a Medicago truncatula transcriptome where it was highly expressed. C4H is a major rate-limiting step in phenylpropanoid biosynthesis that separates the pinocembrin pathway from the lignin/monolignol and naringenin-based flavonoid branches. Shikimate O-hydroxycinnamoyltransferase, the link between flavonoid biosynthesis and the lignin/monolignol pathway, was also expressed at much lower levels in D. glomerata than in M. truncatula. Our results indicate (a) a likely major role for flavonoids in actinorhizal nodules, and (b) differences in metabolic flux in flavonoid and phenylpropanoid biosynthesis between the different hosts in symbiosis.
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- Isaac Gifford
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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Bacteria as source of diglycosidase activity: Actinoplanes missouriensis produces 6-O-α-l-rhamnosyl-β-d-glucosidase active on flavonoids. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 100:3061-70. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-7088-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2015] [Revised: 09/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/13/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Lipson SM, Ozen FS, Louis S, Karthikeyan L. Comparison of α-glucosyl hesperidin of citrus fruits and epigallocatechin gallate of green tea on the Loss of Rotavirus Infectivity in Cell Culture. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:359. [PMID: 25972850 PMCID: PMC4413797 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2014] [Accepted: 04/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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A number of secondary plant metabolites (e.g., flavonoids) possess antiviral/antimicrobial activity. Most flavonoids, however, are difficult to study, as they are immiscible in water-based systems. The relatively new semisynthetic α-glucosyl hesperitin (GH), and the natural plant product epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) are unique among most flavonoids, as these flavonoids are highly soluble. The antiviral activity of these plant metabolites were investigated using the rotavirus as a model enteric virus system. Direct loss of virus structural integrity in cell-free suspension and titration of amplified RTV in host cell cultures was measured by a quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (qEIA). After 30 min. 100 × 10(3) μg/ml GH reduced RTV antigen levels by ca. 90%. The same compound reduced infectivity (replication in cell culture) by a similar order of magnitude 3 to 4 days post inoculation. After 3 days in culture, EGCG concentrations of 80, 160, and 320 μg/ml reduced RTV infectivity titer levels to ca. 50, 20, and 15% of the control, respectively. Loss of RTV infectivity titers occurred following viral treatment by parallel testing of both GH and EGCG, with the latter, markedly more effective. Cytotoxicity testing showed no adverse effects by the phenolic concentrations used in this study. The unique chemical structure of each flavonoid rather than each phenolic's inherent solubility may be ascribed to those marked differences between each molecule's antiviral (anti-RTV) effects. The solubility of EGCG and GH obviated our need to use potentially confounding or obfuscating carrier molecules (e.g., methanol, ethanol, DMSO) denoting our use of a pure system environ. Our work further denotes the need to address the unique chemical nature of secondary plant metabolites before any broad generalizations in flavonoid (antiviral) activity may be proposed.
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- Steven M. Lipson
- Department of Biology and Health Promotions, St. Francis College, BrooklynNY, USA
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- Department of Biology and Health Promotions, St. Francis College, BrooklynNY, USA
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- Department of Biology and Health Promotions, St. Francis College, BrooklynNY, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York City College of Technology, The City University of New YorkBrooklyn, NY, USA
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Demina IV, Persson T, Santos P, Plaszczyca M, Pawlowski K. Comparison of the nodule vs. root transcriptome of the actinorhizal plant Datisca glomerata: actinorhizal nodules contain a specific class of defensins. PLoS One 2013; 8:e72442. [PMID: 24009681 PMCID: PMC3756986 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2013] [Accepted: 07/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Actinorhizal root nodule symbioses are very diverse, and the symbiosis of Datisca glomerata has previously been shown to have many unusual aspects. In order to gain molecular information on the infection mechanism, nodule development and nodule metabolism, we compared the transcriptomes of D. glomerata roots and nodules. Root and nodule libraries representing the 3′-ends of cDNAs were subjected to high-throughput parallel 454 sequencing. To identify the corresponding genes and to improve the assembly, Illumina sequencing of the nodule transcriptome was performed as well. The evaluation revealed 406 differentially regulated genes, 295 of which (72.7%) could be assigned a function based on homology. Analysis of the nodule transcriptome showed that genes encoding components of the common symbiosis signaling pathway were present in nodules of D. glomerata, which in combination with the previously established function of SymRK in D. glomerata nodulation suggests that this pathway is also active in actinorhizal Cucurbitales. Furthermore, comparison of the D. glomerata nodule transcriptome with nodule transcriptomes from actinorhizal Fagales revealed a new subgroup of nodule-specific defensins that might play a role specific to actinorhizal symbioses. The D. glomerata members of this defensin subgroup contain an acidic C-terminal domain that was never found in plant defensins before.
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- Irina V. Demina
- Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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Khodorova NV, Shavarda AL, Lequart-Pillon M, Laberche JC, Voitsekhovskaja OV, Boitel-Conti M. Biosynthesis of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids in Corydalis bracteata: compartmentation and seasonal dynamics. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2013; 92:60-70. [PMID: 23664175 DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2013.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2012] [Revised: 04/03/2013] [Accepted: 04/06/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Numerous species of the genus Corydalis (Papaveraceae) produce a large spectrum of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIA), some of which are of potential therapeutic value, but no information on sites of their biosynthesis and compartmentation is available. This study focuses on the biosynthesis, compartmentation and seasonal dynamics of BIA in Corydalis bracteata (Steph. ex Willd) Pers., a geophyte with a very short spring vegetation period, which for the rest of the year is represented by underground tubers with buds. It was found that all organs of C. bracteata contained high levels of BIA, the highest concentrations being detected in underground tuber buds in early autumn. Neither xylem nor phloem sap contained alkaloids throughout the year but BIA were present in the apoplastic wash fluid of the tuber. The absence of long-distance transport of alkaloids was confirmed by the experiment using an isotopically labeled tracer, [ring-(13)C6]-tyramine: when whole plants were fed with the tracer with via the roots, the alkaloids became labeled in the roots only and not in other organs. However, when detached roots, leaves, tubers and stems were exposed to [ring-(13)C6]-tyramine, the label was incorporated into alkaloids in all organs. We conclude that no long-distance translocation of alkaloids occurs between organs of C. bracteata, while in the tuber the cell-to-cell transport of alkaloids could occur via the apoplast. In contrast to other BIA-producing species, every organ of C. bracteata was found to be capable of de novo biosynthesis of the full complement of alkaloids.
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- Nadezda V Khodorova
- Unité de Recherche EA 3900 BIOPI Biologie des Plantes et Innovations, UFR des Sciences, Ilot des Poulies, Jules Verne University of Picardie, 33 rue St-Leu, 80039 Amiens, France.
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Versatile redox chemistry complicates antioxidant capacity assessment: flavonoids as milieu-dependent anti- and pro-oxidants. Int J Mol Sci 2013; 14:11830-41. [PMID: 23736691 PMCID: PMC3709758 DOI: 10.3390/ijms140611830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2013] [Revised: 05/17/2013] [Accepted: 05/22/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Some antioxidants have been shown to possess additional pro-oxidant effects. Diverse methodologies exist for studying redox properties of synthetic and natural chemicals. The latter are substantial components of our diet. Exploration of their contribution to life-extending or -compromising effects is mandatory. Among reactive oxygen species (ROS), hydroxyl radical (•OH) is the most damaging species. Due to its short half-life, the assay has to contain a specific generation system. Plants synthesize flavonoids, phenolic compounds recognized as counter-agents to coronary heart disease. Their antioxidant activities are affected by their hydroxylation patterns. Moreover, in the plant, they mainly occur as glycosides. We chose three derivatives, quercetin, luteolin, and rutin, in attempts to explore their redox chemistry in contrasting hydrogen peroxide environments. Initial addition of hydrogen peroxide in high concentration or gradual development constituted a main factor affecting their redox chemical properties, especially in case of quercetin. Our study exemplifies that a combination of a chemical assay (deoxyribose degradation) with an electrochemical method (square-wave voltammetry) provides insightful data. The ambiguity of the tested flavonoids to act either as anti- or pro-oxidant may complicate categorization, but probably contributed to their evolution as components of a successful metabolic system that benefits both producer and consumer.
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Pawlowski K, Bogusz D, Ribeiro A, Berry AM. Progress on research on actinorhizal plants. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2011; 38:633-638. [PMID: 32480917 DOI: 10.1071/fp11066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2011] [Accepted: 05/10/2011] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In recent years, our understanding of the plant side of actinorhizal symbioses has evolved rapidly. No homologues of the common nod genes from rhizobia were found in the three Frankia genomes published so far, which suggested that Nod factor-like molecules would not be used in the infection of actinorhizal plants by Frankia. However, work on chimeric transgenic plants indicated that Frankia Nod factor equivalents signal via the same transduction pathway as rhizobial Nod factors. The role of auxin in actinorhizal nodule formation differs from that in legume nodulation. Great progress has been made in the analysis of pathogenesis-related and stress-related gene expression in nodules. Research on nodule physiology has shown the structural and metabolic diversity of actinorhizal nodules from different phylogenetic branches. The onset of large-scale nodule transcriptome analysis in different actinorhizal systems will provide access to more information on the symbiosis and its evolution.
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- Groupe Rhizogenèse, Unité Mixte de Recherche Diversité et Adaptation des Plantes Cultivées, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, 911 avenue Agropolis, BP 5045, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- ECO-BIO/Tropical Research Institute, Av. da República (EAN), Quinta do Marquês, 2784-505 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Mazzaferro LS, Breccia JD. Functional and biotechnological insights into diglycosidases*. BIOCATAL BIOTRANSFOR 2011. [DOI: 10.3109/10242422.2011.594882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Schubert M, Koteyeva NK, Wabnitz PW, Santos P, Büttner M, Sauer N, Demchenko K, Pawlowski K. Plasmodesmata distribution and sugar partitioning in nitrogen-fixing root nodules of Datisca glomerata. PLANTA 2011; 233:139-52. [PMID: 20938679 PMCID: PMC3015196 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-010-1285-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2010] [Accepted: 09/21/2010] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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To understand carbon partitioning in roots and nodules of Datisca glomerata, activities of sucrose-degrading enzymes and sugar transporter expression patterns were analyzed in both organs, and plasmodesmal connections between nodule cortical cells were examined by transmission electron microscopy. The results indicate that in nodules, the contribution of symplastic transport processes is increased in comparison to roots, specifically in infected cells which develop many secondary plasmodesmata. Invertase activities are dramatically reduced in nodules as compared to roots, indicating that here the main enzyme responsible for the cleavage of sucrose is sucrose synthase. A high-affinity, low-specificity monosaccharide transporter whose expression is induced in infected cells prior to the onset of bacterial nitrogen fixation, and which has an unusually low pH optimum and may be involved in turgor control or hexose retrieval during infection thread growth.
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- Maria Schubert
- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Biochemie der Pflanze, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Laboratory of Anatomy and Morphology, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Popov st. 2, 197376 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Biochemie der Pflanze, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 5, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Abteilung für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Abteilung für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Laboratory of Anatomy and Morphology, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Popov st. 2, 197376 St. Petersburg, Russia
- All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Podbelsky Chaussee 3, Pushkin 8, 196608 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Biochemie der Pflanze, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 5, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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