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Poulhazan A, Arnold AA, Mentink-Vigier F, Muszyński A, Azadi P, Halim A, Vakhrushev SY, Joshi HJ, Wang T, Warschawski DE, Marcotte I. Molecular-level architecture of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii's glycoprotein-rich cell wall. Nat Commun 2024; 15:986. [PMID: 38307857 PMCID: PMC10837150 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45246-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024] Open
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Microalgae are a renewable and promising biomass for large-scale biofuel, food and nutrient production. However, their efficient exploitation depends on our knowledge of the cell wall composition and organization as it can limit access to high-value molecules. Here we provide an atomic-level model of the non-crystalline and water-insoluble glycoprotein-rich cell wall of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Using in situ solid-state and sensitivity-enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance, we reveal unprecedented details on the protein and carbohydrate composition and their nanoscale heterogeneity, as well as the presence of spatially segregated protein- and glycan-rich regions with different dynamics and hydration levels. We show that mannose-rich lower-molecular-weight proteins likely contribute to the cell wall cohesion by binding to high-molecular weight protein components, and that water provides plasticity to the cell-wall architecture. The structural insight exemplifies strategies used by nature to form cell walls devoid of cellulose or other glycan polymers.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alexandre Poulhazan
- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, H2X 2J6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, H2X 2J6, Canada
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32310, USA
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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- Laboratoire des Biomolécules, LBM, CNRS UMR 7203, Sorbonne Université, École Normale Supérieure, PSL University, 75005, Paris, France.
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- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, H2X 2J6, Canada.
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Mikula P, Mlnaříková M, Nadres ET, Takahashi H, Babica P, Kuroda K, Bláha L, Sovadinová I. Synthetic Biomimetic Polymethacrylates: Promising Platform for the Design of Anti-Cyanobacterial and Anti-Algal Agents. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:polym13071025. [PMID: 33810255 PMCID: PMC8036423 DOI: 10.3390/polym13071025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 03/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Extensive, uncontrolled growth of algae and cyanobacteria is an environmental, public health, economic, and technical issue in managing natural and engineered water systems. Synthetic biomimetic polymers have been almost exclusively considered antimicrobial alternatives to conventional antibiotics to treat human bacterial infections. Very little is known about their applicability in an aquatic environment. Here, we introduce synthetic biomimetic polymethacrylates (SBPs) as a cost-effective and chemically facile, flexible platform for designing a new type of agent suitable for controlling and mitigating photosynthetic microorganisms. Since SBPs are cationic and membranolytic in heterotrophic bacteria, we hypothesized they could also interact with negatively charged cyanobacterial or algal cell walls and membranes. We demonstrated that SBPs inhibited the growth of aquatic photosynthetic organisms of concern, i.e., cyanobacteria (Microcystis aeruginosa and Synechococcus elongatus) and green algae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Desmodesmus quadricauda), with 50% effective growth-inhibiting concentrations ranging between 95 nM and 6.5 μM. Additionally, SBPs exhibited algicidal effects on C. reinhardtii and cyanocidal effects on picocyanobacterium S. elongatus and microcystin-producing cyanobacterium M. aeruginosa. SBP copolymers, particularly those with moderate hydrophobic content, induced more potent cyanostatic and cyanocidal effects than homopolymers. Thus, biomimetic polymers are a promising platform for the design of anti-cyanobacterial and anti-algal agents for water treatment.
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- Přemysl Mikula
- RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 3, CZ-62500 Brno, Czech Republic; (P.M.); (M.M.); (P.B.); (L.B.)
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- RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 3, CZ-62500 Brno, Czech Republic; (P.M.); (M.M.); (P.B.); (L.B.)
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; (E.T.N.); (H.T.); (K.K.)
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; (E.T.N.); (H.T.); (K.K.)
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- RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 3, CZ-62500 Brno, Czech Republic; (P.M.); (M.M.); (P.B.); (L.B.)
- Department of Experimental Phycology and Ecotoxicology, Institute of Botany of the CAS, CZ-60200 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; (E.T.N.); (H.T.); (K.K.)
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- RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 3, CZ-62500 Brno, Czech Republic; (P.M.); (M.M.); (P.B.); (L.B.)
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- RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 3, CZ-62500 Brno, Czech Republic; (P.M.); (M.M.); (P.B.); (L.B.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +420-549-494-738
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The Cell Wall PAC (Proline-Rich, Arabinogalactan Proteins, Conserved Cysteines) Domain-Proteins Are Conserved in the Green Lineage. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21072488. [PMID: 32260156 PMCID: PMC7177597 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21072488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2020] [Revised: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Plant cell wall proteins play major roles during plant development and in response to environmental cues. A bioinformatic search for functional domains has allowed identifying the PAC domain (Proline-rich, Arabinogalactan proteins, conserved Cysteines) in several proteins (PDPs) identified in cell wall proteomes. This domain is assumed to interact with pectic polysaccharides and O-glycans and to contribute to non-covalent molecular scaffolds facilitating the remodeling of polysaccharidic networks during rapid cell expansion. In this work, the characteristics of the PAC domain are described in detail, including six conserved Cys residues, their spacing, and the predicted secondary structures. Modeling has been performed based on the crystal structure of a Plantago lanceolata PAC domain. The presence of β-sheets is assumed to ensure the correct folding of the PAC domain as a β-barrel with loop regions. We show that PDPs are present in early divergent organisms from the green lineage and in all land plants. PAC domains are associated with other types of domains: Histidine-rich, extensin, Proline-rich, or yet uncharacterized. The earliest divergent organisms having PDPs are Bryophytes. Like the complexity of the cell walls, the number and complexity of PDPs steadily increase during the evolution of the green lineage. The association of PAC domains with other domains suggests a neo-functionalization and different types of interactions with cell wall polymers
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Mikula P, Mlnarikova M, Takahashi H, Babica P, Kuroda K, Blaha L, Sovadinova I. Branched Poly(ethylene imine)s as Anti-algal and Anti-cyanobacterial Agents with Selective Flocculation Behavior to Cyanobacteria over Algae. Macromol Biosci 2018; 18:e1800187. [PMID: 30156762 DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201800187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Revised: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Poly(ethylene imine)s (PEIs) have been widely studied for biomedical applications, including antimicrobial agents against potential human pathogens. The interactions of branched PEIs (B-PEIs) with environmentally relevant microorganisms whose uncontrolled growth in natural or engineered environments causes health, economic, and technical issues in many sectors of water management are studied. B-PEIs are shown to be potent antimicrobials effective in controlling the growth of environmentally relevant algae and cyanobacteria with dual-functionality and selectivity. Not only did they effectively inhibit growth of both algae and cyanobacteria, mostly without causing cell death (static activity), but they also selectively flocculated cyanobacteria over algae. Thus, unmodified B-PEIs provide a cost-effective and chemically facile framework for the further development of effective and selective antimicrobial agents useful for control of growth and separation of algae and cyanobacteria in natural or engineered environments.
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- Premysl Mikula
- Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-62500, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-62500, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, 1011 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-62500, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, 1011 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-62500, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-62500, Brno, Czech Republic
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Domozych DS, Domozych CE. Multicellularity in green algae: upsizing in a walled complex. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 5:649. [PMID: 25477895 PMCID: PMC4235416 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2014] [Accepted: 09/03/2014] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Modern green algae constitute a large and diverse taxonomic assemblage that encompasses many multicellular phenotypes including colonial, filamentous, and parenchymatous forms. In all multicellular green algae, each cell is surrounded by an extracellular matrix (ECM), most often in the form of a cell wall. Volvocalean taxa like Volvox have an elaborate, gel-like, hydroxyproline rich glycoprotein covering that contains the cells of the colony. In "ulvophytes," uronic acid-rich and sulfated polysaccharides are the likely adhesion agents that maintain the multicellular habit. Charophytes also produce polysaccharide-rich cell walls and in late divergent taxa, pectin plays a critical role in cell adhesion in the multicellular complex. Cell walls are products of coordinated interaction of membrane trafficking, cytoskeletal dynamics and the cell's signal transduction machinery responding both to precise internal clocks and external environmental cues. Most often, these activities must be synchronized with the secretion, deposition and remodeling of the polymers of the ECM. Rapid advances in molecular genetics, cell biology and cell wall biochemistry of green algae will soon provide new insights into the evolution and subcellular processes leading to multicellularity.
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- David S. Domozych
- Skidmore Microscopy Imaging Center, Department of Biology, Skidmore College, Saratoga SpringsNY, USA
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Voigt J, Stolarczyk A, Zych M, Malec P, Burczyk J. The cell-wall glycoproteins of the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus. The predominant cell-wall polypeptide of Scenedesmus obliquus is related to the cell-wall glycoprotein gp3 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 215-216:39-47. [PMID: 24388513 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2013.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2013] [Revised: 09/12/2013] [Accepted: 10/21/2013] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The green alga Scenedesmus obliquus contains a multilayered cell wall, ultrastructurally similar to that of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, although its proportion of hydroxyproline is considerably lower. Therefore, we have investigated the polypeptide composition of the insoluble and the chaotrope-soluble wall fractions of S. obliquus. The polypeptide pattern of the chaotrope-soluble wall fraction was strongly modified by chemical deglycosylation with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (HF) in pyridine indicating that most of these polypeptides are glycosylated. Polypeptide constituents of the chaotrope-soluble cell-wall fraction with apparent molecular masses of 240, 270, 265, and 135 kDa cross-reacted with a polyclonal antibody raised against the 100 kDa deglycosylation product of the C. reinhardtii cell-wall glycoprotein GP3B. Chemical deglycosylation of the chaotrope-soluble wall fraction resulted in a 135 kDa major polypeptide and a 106 kDa minor component reacting with the same antibody. This antibody recognized specific peptide epitopes of GP3B. When the insoluble wall fraction of S. obliquus was treated with anhydrous HF/pyridine, three polypeptides with apparent molecular masses of 144, 135, and 65 kDa were solubilized, which also occured in the deglycosylated chaotrope-soluble wall fraction. These findings indicate that theses glycoproteins are cross-linked to the insoluble wall fraction via HF-sensitive bonds.
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- Jürgen Voigt
- Institute for Biochemistry, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, D-10117 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Silesian Medical University, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Silesian Medical University, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Silesian Medical University, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland; Laboratory of Biotechnology, 43-400 Cieszyn, Poland
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This review covers essentially all aspects of the organisms in the green algal family Volvocaceae and suggests the genetic history of the various steps in their evolution from their unicellular ancestors.
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- A W Coleman
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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Domozych DS, Ciancia M, Fangel JU, Mikkelsen MD, Ulvskov P, Willats WGT. The Cell Walls of Green Algae: A Journey through Evolution and Diversity. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2012; 3:82. [PMID: 22639667 PMCID: PMC3355577 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2012] [Accepted: 04/12/2012] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The green algae represent a large group of morphologically diverse photosynthetic eukaryotes that occupy virtually every photic habitat on the planet. The extracellular coverings of green algae including cell walls are also diverse. A recent surge of research in green algal cell walls fueled by new emerging technologies has revealed new and critical insight concerning these coverings. For example, the late divergent taxa of the Charophycean green algae possess cell walls containing assemblages of polymers with notable similarity to the cellulose, pectins, hemicelluloses, arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs), extensin, and lignin present in embryophyte walls. Ulvophycean seaweeds have cell wall components whose most abundant fibrillar constituents may change from cellulose to β-mannans to β-xylans and during different life cycle phases. Likewise, these algae produce complex sulfated polysaccharides, AGPs, and extensin. Chlorophycean green algae produce a wide array of walls ranging from cellulose-pectin complexes to ones made of hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins. Larger and more detailed surveys of the green algal taxa including incorporation of emerging genomic and transcriptomic data are required in order to more fully resolve evolutionary trends within the green algae and in relationship with higher plants as well as potential applications of wall components in the food and pharmaceutical industries.
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- David S. Domozych
- Department of Biology and Skidmore Microscopy Imaging Center, Skidmore CollegeSaratoga Springs, NY, USA
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- Cátedra de Química de Biomoléculas, Departamento de Biología Aplicada y Alimentos, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Plant Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of CopenhagenFrederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Plant Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of CopenhagenFrederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Plant Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of CopenhagenFrederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Plant Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of CopenhagenFrederiksberg, Denmark
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Voigt J, Kieß M, Getzlaff R, Wöstemeyer J, Frank R. Generation of the heterodimeric precursor GP3 of the Chlamydomonas cell wall. Mol Microbiol 2010; 77:1512-26. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07302.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Kratzer U, Frank R, Kalbacher H, Biehl B, Wöstemeyer J, Voigt J. Subunit structure of the vicilin-like globular storage protein of cocoa seeds and the origin of cocoa- and chocolate-specific aroma precursors. Food Chem 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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