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Hurley ME, Shah SS, Sheard TMD, Kirton HM, Steele DS, Gamper N, Jayasinghe I. Super-Resolution Analysis of the Origins of the Elementary Events of ER Calcium Release in Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons. Cells 2023; 13:38. [PMID: 38201242 PMCID: PMC10778190 DOI: 10.3390/cells13010038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2023] [Revised: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Coordinated events of calcium (Ca2+) released from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are key second messengers in excitable cells. In pain-sensing dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons, these events can be observed as Ca2+ sparks, produced by a combination of ryanodine receptors (RyR) and inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptors (IP3R1). These microscopic signals offer the neuronal cells with a possible means of modulating the subplasmalemmal Ca2+ handling, initiating vesicular exocytosis. With super-resolution dSTORM and expansion microscopies, we visualised the nanoscale distributions of both RyR and IP3R1 that featured loosely organised clusters in the subplasmalemmal regions of cultured rat DRG somata. We adapted a novel correlative microscopy protocol to examine the nanoscale patterns of RyR and IP3R1 in the locality of each Ca2+ spark. We found that most subplasmalemmal sparks correlated with relatively small groups of RyR whilst larger sparks were often associated with larger groups of IP3R1. These data also showed spontaneous Ca2+ sparks in <30% of the subplasmalemmal cell area but consisted of both these channel species at a 3.8-5 times higher density than in nonactive regions of the cell. Taken together, these observations reveal distinct patterns and length scales of RyR and IP3R1 co-clustering at contact sites between the ER and the surface plasmalemma that encode the positions and the quantity of Ca2+ released at each Ca2+ spark.
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Affiliation(s)
- Miriam E. Hurley
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
- EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Biomedical Science, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney 2052, Australia
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Sheard TMD, Shakespeare TB, Seehra RS, Spencer ME, Suen KM, Jayasinghe I. Differential labelling of human sub-cellular compartments with fluorescent dye esters and expansion microscopy. Nanoscale 2023; 15:18489-18499. [PMID: 37942554 PMCID: PMC10667587 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr01129a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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Amine-reactive esters of aromatic fluorescent dyes are emerging as imaging probes for nondescript staining of cellular and tissue architectures. We characterised the staining patterns of 14 fluorescent dye ester species with varying physical and spectral properties in the broadly studied human HeLa cell line. When combined with the super-resolution technique expansion microscopy (ExM) involving swellable acrylamide hydrogels, fluorescent esters reveal nanoscale features including cytoplasmic membrane-bound compartments and nucleolar densities. We observe differential labelling patterns linked to the biochemical properties of the conjugated dye. Alterations in staining density and compartment specificity were seen depending on the timepoint of application in the ExM protocol. Additional complexity in labelling patterns was detected arising from inter-ester interactions. Our findings raise a number of considerations for the use of fluorescent esters. We demonstrate esters as a useful addition to the repertoire of stains of the cellular proteome, whether applied either on their own to visualise overall cellular morphology, or as counterstains providing ultrastructural context alongside specific target markers like antibodies.
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- Thomas M D Sheard
- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
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- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
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- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
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- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
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- School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
- EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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Hurley ME, White E, Sheard TMD, Steele D, Jayasinghe I. Correlative super-resolution analysis of cardiac calcium sparks and their molecular origins in health and disease. Open Biol 2023; 13:230045. [PMID: 37220792 PMCID: PMC10205181 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.230045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023] Open
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Rapid release of calcium from internal stores via ryanodine receptors (RyRs) is one of the fastest types of cytoplasmic second messenger signalling in excitable cells. In the heart, rapid summation of the elementary events of calcium release, 'calcium sparks', determine the contraction of the myocardium. We adapted a correlative super-resolution microscopy protocol to correlate sub-plasmalemmal spontaneous calcium sparks in rat right ventricular myocytes with the local nanoscale RyR2 positions. This revealed a steep relationship between the integral of a calcium spark and the sum of the local RyR2s. Segmentation of recurring spark sites showed evidence of repeated and triggered saltatory activation of multiple local RyR2 clusters. In myocytes taken from failing right ventricles, RyR2 clusters themselves showed a dissipated morphology and fragmented (smaller) clusters. They also featured greater heterogeneity in both the spark properties and the relationship between the integral of the calcium spark and the local ensemble of RyR2s. While fragmented (smaller) RyR2 clusters were rarely observed directly underlying the larger sparks or the recurring spark sites, local interrogation of the channel-to-channel distances confirmed a clear link between the positions of each calcium spark and the tight, non-random clustering of the local RyR2 in both healthy and failing ventricles.
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- Miriam E. Hurley
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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Andersen C, Zulueta Díaz YDLM, Kure JL, Hessellund Eriksen M, Lovatt AL, Lagerholm C, Morales S, Sehayek S, Sheard TMD, Wiseman PW, Arnspang EC. Angiotensin II Treatment Induces Reorganization and Changes in the Lateral Dynamics of Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor in the Plasma Membrane Elucidated by Photoactivated Localization Microscopy Combined with Image Spatial Correlation Analysis. Anal Chem 2023; 95:730-738. [PMID: 36574961 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The mechanisms by which angiotensin II type 1 receptor is distributed and the diffusional pattern in the plasma membrane (PM) remain unclear, despite their crucial role in cardiovascular homeostasis. In this work, we obtained quantitative information of angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1R) lateral dynamics as well as changes in the diffusion properties after stimulation with ligands in living cells using photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) combined with image spatial-temporal correlation analysis. To study the organization of the receptor at the nanoscale, expansion microscopy (ExM) combined with PALM was performed. This study revealed that AT1R lateral diffusion increased after binding to angiotensin II (Ang II) and the receptor diffusion was transiently confined in the PM. In addition, ExM revealed that AT1R formed nanoclusters at the PM and the cluster size significantly decreased after Ang II treatment. Taking these results together suggest that Ang II binding and activation cause reorganization and changes in the dynamics of AT1R at the PM.
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- Camilla Andersen
- SDU Biotechnology, Department of Green Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M5230, Denmark
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- SDU Biotechnology, Department of Green Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M5230, Denmark
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- SDU Biotechnology, Department of Green Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M5230, Denmark
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- SDU Biotechnology, Department of Green Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M5230, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, McGill University, MontrealH3A 0B8, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, McGill University, MontrealH3A 0B8, Canada
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- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, SheffieldS10 2TN, U.K
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- Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, McGill University, MontrealH3A 0B8, Canada
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- SDU Biotechnology, Department of Green Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M5230, Denmark
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Sheard TMD, Hurley ME, Smith AJ, Colyer J, White E, Jayasinghe I. Three-dimensional visualization of the cardiac ryanodine receptor clusters and the molecular-scale fraying of dyads. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20210316. [PMID: 36189802 PMCID: PMC9527906 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Clusters of ryanodine receptor calcium channels (RyRs) form the primary molecular machinery of intracellular calcium signalling in cardiomyocytes. While a range of optical super-resolution microscopy techniques have revealed the nanoscale structure of these clusters, the three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale topologies of the clusters have remained mostly unresolved. In this paper, we demonstrate the exploitation of molecular-scale resolution in enhanced expansion microscopy (EExM) along with various 2D and 3D visualization strategies to observe the topological complexities, geometries and molecular sub-domains within the RyR clusters. Notably, we observed sub-domains containing RyR-binding protein junctophilin-2 (JPH2) occupying the central regions of RyR clusters in the deeper interior of the myocytes (including dyads), while the poles were typically devoid of JPH2, lending to a looser RyR arrangement. By contrast, peripheral RyR clusters exhibited variable co-clustering patterns and ratios between RyR and JPH2. EExM images of dyadic RyR clusters in right ventricular (RV) myocytes isolated from rats with monocrotaline-induced RV failure revealed hallmarks of RyR cluster fragmentation accompanied by breaches in the JPH2 sub-domains. Frayed RyR patterns observed adjacent to these constitute new evidence that the destabilization of the RyR arrays inside the JPH2 sub-domains may seed the primordial foci of dyad remodelling observed in heart failure. This article is part of the theme issue 'The cardiomyocyte: new revelations on the interplay between architecture and function in growth, health, and disease'.
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- Thomas M D Sheard
- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.,School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.,School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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Hurley ME, Sheard TMD, Norman R, Kirton HM, Shah SS, Pervolaraki E, Yang Z, Gamper N, White E, Steele D, Jayasinghe I. A correlative super-resolution protocol to visualise structural underpinnings of fast second-messenger signalling in primary cell types. Methods 2021; 193:27-37. [PMID: 33059034 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2020.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Revised: 09/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Nanometre-scale cellular information obtained through super-resolution microscopies are often unaccompanied by functional information, particularly transient and diffusible signals through which life is orchestrated in the nano-micrometre spatial scale. We describe a correlative imaging protocol which allows the ubiquitous intracellular second messenger, calcium (Ca2+), to be directly visualised against nanoscale patterns of the ryanodine receptor (RyR) Ca2+ channels which give rise to these Ca2+ signals in wildtype primary cells. This was achieved by combining total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) imaging of the elementary Ca2+ signals, with the subsequent DNA-PAINT imaging of the RyRs. We report a straightforward image analysis protocol of feature extraction and image alignment between correlative datasets and demonstrate how such data can be used to visually identify the ensembles of Ca2+ channels that are locally activated during the genesis of cytoplasmic Ca2+ signals.
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- Miriam E Hurley
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK; Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, The University of Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
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Sheard TMD, Kharche SR, Pinali C, Shiels HA. 3D ultrastructural organisation of calcium release units in the avian sarcoplasmic reticulum. J Exp Biol 2019; 222:jeb.197640. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.197640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
Excitation-contraction coupling in vertebrate hearts is underpinned by calcium (Ca2+) release from Ca2+ release units (CRUs). CRUs are formed by clusters of channels called ryanodine receptors on the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) within the cardiomyocyte. Distances between CRUs influence the diffusion of Ca2+, thus influencing the rate and strength of excitation-contraction coupling. Avian myocytes lack T-tubules, thus Ca2+ from surface CRUs (peripheral couplings, PCs), must diffuse to internal CRU sites of the corbular SR (cSR) during centripetal propagation. Despite this, avian hearts achieve higher contractile rates and develop greater contractile strength than many mammalian hearts, which have T-tubules to provide simultaneous activation of the Ca2+ signal through the myocyte. We used 3D electron tomography to test the hypothesis that the intracellular distribution of CRUs in the avian heart permits faster and stronger contractions despite the absence T-tubules. Nearest edge-edge distances between PCs and cSR, and geometric information including surface area and volumes of individual cSR, were obtained for each cardiac chamber of the White Leghorn chicken. Computational modelling was then used to establish a relationship between CRUs distances and cell activation time in the avian heart. Our data suggest that cSR clustered close together along the Z-line is vital for rapid propagation of the Ca2+ signal from the cell periphery to the cell centre which would aid in the strong and fast contractions of the avian heart.
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- Thomas M. D. Sheard
- University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 3K7, Canada
- Lawson Health Research Institute, 800 Commissioners Road East, London, Ontario, N6C 2R5, Canada
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- University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- University of Manchester, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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