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Garzanelli J, Maiden S. Exposing a novel genetic interaction between unc-33/CRMP and hmp-2/β-catenin during Caenorhabditis elegans embryogenesis. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2020; 2020:10.17912/micropub.biology.000286. [PMID: 32760883 PMCID: PMC7396159 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- John Garzanelli
- Biology Department, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, 63501
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- Biology Department, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, 63501,
Correspondence to: Stephanie Maiden ()
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Hensley K, Poteshkina A, Johnson MF, Eslami P, Gabbita SP, Hristov AM, Venkova-Hristova KM, Harris-White ME. Autophagy Modulation by Lanthionine Ketimine Ethyl Ester Improves Long-Term Outcome after Central Fluid Percussion Injury in the Mouse. J Neurotrauma 2016; 33:1501-13. [PMID: 26530250 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2015.4196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Diffuse axonal injury is recognized as a progressive and long-term consequence of traumatic brain injury. Axonal injury can have sustained negative consequences on neuronal functions such as anterograde and retrograde transport and cellular processes such as autophagy that depend on cytoarchitecture and axon integrity. These changes can lead to somatic atrophy and an inability to repair and promote plasticity. Obstruction of the autophagic process has been noted after brain injury, and rapamycin, a drug used to stimulate autophagy, has demonstrated positive effects in brain injury models. The optimization of drugs to promote beneficial autophagy without negative side effects could be used to attenuate traumatic brain injury and promote improved outcome. Lanthionine ketimine ethyl ester, a bioavailable derivative of a natural sulfur amino acid metabolite, has demonstrated effects on autophagy both in vitro and in vivo. Thirty minutes after a moderate central fluid percussion injury and throughout the survival period, lanthionine ketimine ethyl ester was administered, and mice were subsequently evaluated for learning and memory impairments and biochemical and histological changes over a 5-week period. Lanthionine ketimine ethyl ester, which we have shown previously to modulate autophagy markers and alleviate pathology and slow cognitive decline in the 3 × TgAD mouse model, spared cognition and pathology after central fluid percussion injury through a mechanism involving autophagy modulation.
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- Kenneth Hensley
- 1 Department of Pathology, University of Toledo Health Science Campus , Toledo, Ohio.,2 Department of Neurosciences, University of Toledo Health Science Campus , Toledo, Ohio
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- 4 Veterans Administration-Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System , Los Angeles, California
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- 4 Veterans Administration-Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System , Los Angeles, California
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- 4 Veterans Administration-Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System , Los Angeles, California
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- 1 Department of Pathology, University of Toledo Health Science Campus , Toledo, Ohio
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- 4 Veterans Administration-Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System , Los Angeles, California.,5 Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA , Los Angeles, California
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Hubbard C, Benda E, Hardin T, Baxter T, St. John E, O'Brien S, Hensley K, Holgado AM. Lanthionine ketimine ethyl ester partially rescues neurodevelopmental defects inunc-33(DPYSL2/CRMP2) mutants. J Neurosci Res 2013; 91:1183-90. [DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2013] [Revised: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 03/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Caleb Hubbard
- Department of Biological Sciences; Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Weatherford; Oklahoma
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- Department of Biological Sciences; Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Weatherford; Oklahoma
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- Department of Biological Sciences; Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Weatherford; Oklahoma
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- Department of Biological Sciences; Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Weatherford; Oklahoma
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- Department of Biological Sciences; Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Weatherford; Oklahoma
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- Department of Biological Sciences; Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Weatherford; Oklahoma
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- Department of Pathology and Department of Neuroscience; University of Toledo Medical Center; Toledo; Ohio
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- Department of Biological Sciences; Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Weatherford; Oklahoma
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Divergent functions through alternative splicing: the Drosophila CRMP gene in pyrimidine metabolism, brain, and behavior. Genetics 2012; 191:1227-38. [PMID: 22649077 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.141101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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DHP and CRMP proteins comprise a family of structurally similar proteins that perform divergent functions, DHP in pyrimidine catabolism in most organisms and CRMP in neuronal dynamics in animals. In vertebrates, one DHP and five CRMP proteins are products of six genes; however, Drosophila melanogaster has a single CRMP gene that encodes one DHP and one CRMP protein through tissue-specific, alternative splicing of a pair of paralogous exons. The proteins derived from the fly gene are identical over 90% of their lengths, suggesting that unique, novel functions of these proteins derive from the segment corresponding to the paralogous exons. Functional homologies of the Drosophila and mammalian CRMP proteins are revealed by several types of evidence. Loss-of-function CRMP mutation modifies both Ras and Rac misexpression phenotypes during fly eye development in a manner that is consistent with the roles of CRMP in Ras and Rac signaling pathways in mammalian neurons. In both mice and flies, CRMP mutation impairs learning and memory. CRMP mutant flies are defective in circadian activity rhythm. Thus, DHP and CRMP proteins are derived by different processes in flies (tissue-specific, alternative splicing of paralogous exons of a single gene) and vertebrates (tissue-specific expression of different genes), indicating that diverse genetic mechanisms have mediated the evolution of this protein family in animals.
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Janowitz T, Ajonina I, Perbandt M, Woltersdorf C, Hertel P, Liebau E, Gigengack U. The 3-ureidopropionase of Caenorhabditis elegans, an enzyme involved in pyrimidine degradation. FEBS J 2010; 277:4100-9. [PMID: 20840592 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07805.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Pyrimidines are important metabolites in all cells. Levels of cellular pyrimidines are controlled by multiple mechanisms, with one of these comprising the reductive degradation pathway. In the model invertebrate Caenorhabditis elegans, two of the three enzymes of reductive pyrimidine degradation have previously been characterized. The enzyme catalysing the final step of pyrimidine breakdown, 3-ureidopropionase (β-alanine synthase), had only been identified based on homology. We therefore cloned and functionally expressed the 3-ureidopropionase of C. elegans as hexahistidine fusion protein. The purified recombinant enzyme readily converted the two pyrimidine degradation products: 3-ureidopropionate and 2-methyl-3-ureidopropionate. The enzyme showed a broad pH optimum between pH 7.0 and 8.0. Activity was highest at approximately 40 °C, although the half-life of activity was only 65 s at that temperature. The enzyme showed clear Michaelis-Menten kinetics, with a K(m) of 147 ± 26 μM and a V(max) of 1.1 ± 0.1 U·mg protein(-1). The quaternary structure of the recombinant enzyme was shown to correspond to a dodecamer by 'blue native' gel electrophoresis and gel filtration. The organ specific and subcellular localization of the enzyme was determined using a translational fusion to green fluorescent protein and high expression was observed in striated muscle cells. With the characterization of the 3-ureidopropionase, the reductive pyrimidine degradation pathway in C. elegans has been functionally characterized.
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- Tim Janowitz
- Institut für Zoophysiologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
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Schmidt EF, Strittmatter SM. The CRMP family of proteins and their role in Sema3A signaling. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2007; 600:1-11. [PMID: 17607942 PMCID: PMC2853248 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-70956-7_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The CRMP proteins were originally identified as mediators of Sema3A signaling and neuronal differentiation. Much has been learned about the mechanism by which CRMPs regulate cellular responses to Sema3A. In this review, the evidence for CRMP as a component of the Sema3A signaling cascade and the modulation of CRMP by plexin and phosphorylation are considered. In addition, current knowledge of the function of CRMP in a variety of cellular processes, including regulation of the cytoskeleton and endocytosis, is discussed in relationship to the mechanisms of axonal growth cone Sema3A response. The secreted protein Sema3A (collapsin-1) was the first identified vertebrate semaphorin. Sema3A acts primarily as a repulsive axon guidance cue, and can cause a dramatic collapse of the growth cone lamellipodium. This process results from the redistribution of the F-actin cytoskeleton and endocytosis of the growth cone cell membrane. Neuropilin-1 (NP1) and members of the class A plexins (PlexA) form a Sema3A receptor complex, with NP1 serving as a high-affinity ligand binding partner, and PlexA transducing the signal into the cell via its large intracellular domain. Although the effect of Sema3A on growth cones was first described nearly 15 years ago, the intracellular signaling pathways that lead to the cellular effects have only recently begun to be understood. Monomeric G-proteins, various kinases, the redox protein, MICAL, and protein turnover have all been implicated in PlexA transduction. In addition, the collapsin-response-mediator protein (CRMP) family of cytosolic phosphoproteins plays a crucial role in Sema3A/NP1/PlexA signal transduction. Current knowledge regarding CRMP functions are reviewed here.
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- Corresponding Author: Stephen M. Strittmatter—Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
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Lohkamp B, Andersen B, Piškur J, Dobritzsch D. The crystal structures of dihydropyrimidinases reaffirm the close relationship between cyclic amidohydrolases and explain their substrate specificity. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:13762-13776. [PMID: 16517602 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m513266200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In eukaryotes, dihydropyrimidinase catalyzes the second step of the reductive pyrimidine degradation, the reversible hydrolytic ring opening of dihydropyrimidines. Here we describe the three-dimensional structures of dihydropyrimidinase from two eukaryotes, the yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri and the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, determined and refined to 2.4 and 2.05 angstroms, respectively. Both enzymes have a (beta/alpha)8-barrel structural core embedding the catalytic di-zinc center, which is accompanied by a smaller beta-sandwich domain. Despite loop-forming insertions in the sequence of the yeast enzyme, the overall structures and architectures of the active sites of the dihydropyrimidinases are strikingly similar to each other, as well as to those of hydantoinases, dihydroorotases, and other members of the amidohydrolase superfamily of enzymes. However, formation of the physiologically relevant tetramer shows subtle but nonetheless significant differences. The extension of one of the sheets of the beta-sandwich domain across a subunit-subunit interface in yeast dihydropyrimidinase underlines its closer evolutionary relationship to hydantoinases, whereas the slime mold enzyme shows higher similarity to the noncatalytic collapsin-response mediator proteins involved in neuron development. Catalysis is expected to follow a dihydroorotase-like mechanism but in the opposite direction and with a different substrate. Complexes with dihydrouracil and N-carbamyl-beta-alanine obtained for the yeast dihydropyrimidinase reveal the mode of substrate and product binding and allow conclusions about what determines substrate specificity, stereoselectivity, and the reaction direction among cyclic amidohydrolases.
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- Bernhard Lohkamp
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Rawls JM. Analysis of pyrimidine catabolism in Drosophila melanogaster using epistatic interactions with mutations of pyrimidine biosynthesis and beta-alanine metabolism. Genetics 2005; 172:1665-74. [PMID: 16361227 PMCID: PMC1456268 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.052753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The biochemical pathway for pyrimidine catabolism links the pathways for pyrimidine biosynthesis and salvage with beta-alanine metabolism, providing an array of epistatic interactions with which to analyze mutations of these pathways. Loss-of-function mutations have been identified and characterized for each of the enzymes for pyrimidine catabolism: dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD), su(r) mutants; dihydropyrimidinase (DHP), CRMP mutants; beta-alanine synthase (betaAS), pyd3 mutants. For all three genes, mutants are viable and fertile and manifest no obvious phenotypes, aside from a variety of epistatic interactions. Mutations of all three genes disrupt suppression by the rudimentary gain-of-function mutation (r(Su(b))) of the dark cuticle phenotype of black mutants in which beta-alanine pools are diminished; these results confirm that pyrimidines are the major source of beta-alanine in cuticle pigmentation. The truncated wing phenotype of rudimentary mutants is suppressed completely by su(r) mutations and partially by CRMP mutations; however, no suppression is exhibited by pyd3 mutations. Similarly, su(r) mutants are hypersensitive to dietary 5-fluorouracil, CRMP mutants are less sensitive, and pyd3 mutants exhibit wild-type sensitivity. These results are discussed in the context of similar consequences of 5-fluoropyrimidine toxicity and pyrimidine catabolism mutations in humans.
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- John M Rawls
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Group, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA.
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Charrier E, Reibel S, Rogemond V, Aguera M, Thomasset N, Honnorat J. Collapsin response mediator proteins (CRMPs): involvement in nervous system development and adult neurodegenerative disorders. Mol Neurobiol 2003; 28:51-64. [PMID: 14514985 DOI: 10.1385/mn:28:1:51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2003] [Accepted: 03/26/2003] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The members of the collapsin response mediator protein (CRMP) family-five cytosolic phosphoproteins -are highly expressed throughout brain development. The first member to be cloned, CRMP2, was identified as an intracellular messenger required for the growth cone-collapse induced by semaphorin 3A (Sema3A). A rapidly expanding body of study indicates that the functions of CRMPs are not solely limited to the signaling transduction of the Sema3A guidance cue. They are probably involved in multiple cellular and molecular events involved in apoptosis/proliferation, cell migration, and differentiation. In the adult brain, the expression of CRMPs is dramatically downregulated. However, they remain expressed in structures that retain their capacity for differentiation and plasticity and also in a subpopulation of oligodendrocytes (CRMP2 and CRMP5). Moreover, the expression of CRMPs is altered in neurodegenerative diseases, and these proteins may be of key importance in the physiopathology of the adult nervous system.
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- Emmanuelle Charrier
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U 433, Hôpital Neurologique, 59 Bd Pinel, 69003 Lyon, France
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Yu YA, Szalay AA, Wang G, Oberg K. Visualization of molecular and cellular events with green fluorescent proteins in developing embryos: a review. LUMINESCENCE 2003; 18:1-18. [PMID: 12536374 DOI: 10.1002/bio.701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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During the past 5 years, green fluorescent protein (GFP) has become one of the most widely used in vivo protein markers for studying a number of different molecular processes during development, such as promoter activation, gene expression, protein trafficking and cell lineage determination. GFP fluorescence allows observation of dynamic developmental processes in real time, in both transiently and stably transformed cells, as well as in live embryos. In this review, we include the most up-to-date use of GFP during embryonic development and point out the unique contribution of GFP visualization, which resulted in novel discoveries.
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- Yong A Yu
- Division of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA
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Goshima Y, Ito T, Sasaki Y, Nakamura F. Semaphorins as signals for cell repulsion and invasion. J Clin Invest 2002. [DOI: 10.1172/jci0215467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Goshima Y, Ito T, Sasaki Y, Nakamura F. Semaphorins as signals for cell repulsion and invasion. J Clin Invest 2002; 109:993-8. [PMID: 11956234 PMCID: PMC150952 DOI: 10.1172/jci15467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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- Yoshio Goshima
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Neurobiology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, 3-9 Fuku-ura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan.
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Altenbuchner J, Siemann-Herzberg M, Syldatk C. Hydantoinases and related enzymes as biocatalysts for the synthesis of unnatural chiral amino acids. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2001; 12:559-63. [PMID: 11849938 DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(01)00263-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A cascade of hydantoinase, N-carbamoylase and hydantoinracemase can be used for the production of natural and unnatural chiral D- and L-amino acids from chemically synthesized hydantoin derivatives. Potentially, 100% conversion and 100% optically pure amino acids can be obtained at the same time if racemic substrates are used. Recent research activities concentrate on newly isolated or improved enzymes and include directed evolution techniques, structure elucidation, studies of fusion proteins and the use of specially designed whole cell biocatalysts.
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- J Altenbuchner
- Institute of Industrial Genetics, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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