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  1. Functional sugar alcohols have been widely used in the food, medicine, and pharmaceutical industries for their unique properties. Among these, erythritol is a zero calories sweetener produced by the yeast Yarrowi...

    Authors: Nan Wang, Ping Chi, Yawen Zou, Yirong Xu, Shuo Xu, M. Bilal, Patrick Fickers and Hairong Cheng

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:176

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  2. To meet the present transportation demands and solve food versus fuel issue, microbial lipid-derived biofuels are gaining attention worldwide. This study is focussed on high-throughput screening of oleaginous ...

    Authors: Kukkala Kiran Kumar, Farha Deeba, Sauraj, Yuvraj Singh Negi and Naseem A. Gaur

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:175

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  3. Cellulose degradation by cellulase is brought about by complex communities of interacting microorganisms, which significantly contribute to the cycling of carbon on a global scale. β-Glucosidase (BGL) is the r...

    Authors: Xinyue Zhang, Bo Ma, Jiawen Liu, Xiehui Chen, Shanshan Li, Erlie Su, Liyuan Gao and Hongtao Li

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:174

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  4. Bioelectrochemical methane oxidation catalysed by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) is constrained by limited methane bioavailability as well as by slow kinetics of extracellular electron transfer (EET) ...

    Authors: Xueqin Zhang, Hesamoddin Rabiee, Joshua Frank, Chen Cai, Terra Stark, Bernardino Virdis, Zhiguo Yuan and Shihu Hu

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:173

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  5. Schizochytrium species are known for their abundant production of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Low temperatures can promote the biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in many species. This study inves...

    Authors: Fan Hu, April L. Clevenger, Peng Zheng, Qiongye Huang and Zhaokai Wang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:172

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  6. Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) of pre-treated lignocellulosics to biofuels and other platform chemicals has long been a promising alternative to separate hydrolysis and fermentation proce...

    Authors: J. Vishnu Prasad, Tridweep K. Sahoo, S. Naveen and Guhan Jayaraman

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:171

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  7. Newly formed polyploids may experience short-term adaptative changes in their genome that may enhance the resistance of plants to stress. Considering the increasingly serious effects of drought on biofuel plan...

    Authors: Peilin Chen, Jing Chen, Min Sun, Haidong Yan, Guangyan Feng, Bingchao Wu, Xinquan Zhang, Xiaoshan Wang and Linkai Huang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:170

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  8. Microbial electrolysis is a promising technology for converting aqueous wastes into hydrogen. However, substrate adaptability is an important feature, seldom documented in microbial electrolysis cells (MECs). ...

    Authors: Scott J. Satinover, Miguel Rodriguez Jr., Maria F. Campa, Terry C. Hazen and Abhijeet P. Borole

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:169

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  9. Product toxicity is one of the bottlenecks for microbial production of biofuels, and transporter-mediated biofuel secretion offers a promising strategy to solve this problem. As a robust microbial host for ind...

    Authors: Xiao Bu, Jing-Yuan Lin, Jing Cheng, Dong Yang, Chang-Qing Duan, Mattheos Koffas and Guo-Liang Yan

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:168

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  10. Fungal enzymes are vital for industrial biotechnology, including the conversion of plant biomass to biofuels and bio-based chemicals. In recent years, there is increasing interest in using enzymes from thermop...

    Authors: Raphael Gabriel, Julia Prinz, Marina Jecmenica, Carlos Romero-Vazquez, Pallas Chou, Simon Harth, Lena Floerl, Laure Curran, Anne Oostlander, Linda Matz, Susanne Fritsche, Jennifer Gorman, Timo Schuerg, André Fleißner and Steven W. Singer

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:167

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  11. Biobutanol is promising and renewable alternative to traditional fossil fuels and could be produced by Clostridium species from lignocellulosic biomass. However, biomass is recalcitrant to be hydrolyzed into ferm...

    Authors: Guochao Xu, Hao Li, Wanru Xing, Lei Gong, Jinjun Dong and Ye Ni

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:166

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  12. The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass from agricultural waste into biofuels and chemicals is considered a promising way to provide sustainable low carbon products without compromising food security. Howeve...

    Authors: Duong T. Nguyen, Leonardo D. Gomez, Andrea Harper, Claire Halpin, Robbie Waugh, Rachael Simister, Caragh Whitehead, Helena Oakey, Huong T. Nguyen, Tuat V. Nguyen, Tu X. Duong and Simon J. McQueen-Mason

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:165

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  13. Highly efficient enzymatic saccharification of pretreated lignocellulose is a key step in achieving lignocellulosic biorefinery. Cellobiohydrolase I (Cel7A) secreted by Trichoderma reesei is an industrially used ...

    Authors: Yuki Tokunaga, Takashi Nagata, Keiko Kondo, Masato Katahira and Takashi Watanabe

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:164

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  14. Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising resource of renewable biochemicals and biofuels. However, the presence of inhibitors existing in lignocellulosic hydrolysates (LCH) is a great challenge to acetone-butano...

    Authors: Huanhuan Liu, Jing Zhang, Jian Yuan, Xiaolong Jiang, Lingyan Jiang, Zhenjing Li, Zhiqiu Yin, Yuhui Du, Guang Zhao, Bin Liu and Di Huang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:163

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  15. Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is essential in improving the power generation performance of electrochemically active bacteria (EAB) in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Currently, the EET mechanisms of diss...

    Authors: Yating Guo, Guozhen Wang, Hao Zhang, Hongyu Wen and Wen Li

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:162

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  16. Microalgae are considered as a source of low pollution and renewable fuel due to their ability to synthesize an abundance of lipids. Conventional methods for lipid quantification are time-consuming and chemica...

    Authors: Yongni Shao, Weimin Gu, Y ating Qiu, Shengfeng Wang, Yan Peng, YiMing Zhu and Songlin Zhuang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:161

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  17. Despite the great potential of marine diatoms in biofuel sector, commercially viable biofuel production from native diatom strain is impractical. Targeted engineering of TAG pathway represents a promising appr...

    Authors: Xiang Wang, Si-Fen Liu, Ruo-Yu Li, Wei-Dong Yang, Jie-Sheng Liu, Carol Sze Ki Lin, Srinivasan Balamurugan and Hong-Ye Li

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:160

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  18. Crude glycerol as a promising feedstock for microbial lipid production contains several impurities that make it toxic stress inducer at high amount. Under stress conditions, microorganisms can accumulate l-prolin...

    Authors: Rasool Kamal, Yuxue Liu, Qiang Li, Qitian Huang, Qian Wang, Xue Yu and Zongbao Kent Zhao

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:159

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  19. Trichoderma reesei is an ascomycete fungus that has a tremendous capability of secreting extracellular proteins, mostly lignocellulose-degrading enzymes. Although many aspects of the biology of this organism have...

    Authors: Sami Havukainen, Mari Valkonen, Kari Koivuranta and Christopher P. Landowski

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:158

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  20. Commercial ethanol fermentation facilities traditionally rely on antibiotics for bacterial contamination control. Here we demonstrate an alternative approach to treat contamination using a novel peptidoglycan ...

    Authors: Shao-Yeh Lu, Kenneth M. Bischoff, Joseph O. Rich, Siqing Liu and Christopher D. Skory

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:157

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  21. The integration of first- and second-generation bioethanol processes has the potential to accelerate the establishment of second-generation bioethanol on the market. Cofermenting pretreated wheat straw with a ...

    Authors: Michael Persson, Mats Galbe and Ola Wallberg

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:156

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  22. Biomass recalcitrance towards pretreatment and further processing can be related to the compositional and structural features of the biomass. However, the exact role and relative importance to those structural...

    Authors: Dennis Weidener, Murali Dama, Sabine K. Dietrich, Benedict Ohrem, Markus Pauly, Walter Leitner, Pablo Domínguez de María, Philipp M. Grande and Holger Klose

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:155

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  23. Similar to biofuels, numerous chemicals produced from petroleum resources can also be made from biomass. In this research we investigate cradle to biorefinery exit gate life cycle impacts of producing acetic a...

    Authors: Erik Budsberg, Rodrigo Morales-Vera, Jordan T. Crawford, Renata Bura and Rick Gustafson

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:154

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  24. During the last decades, the impact of hyperthermophiles and their enzymes has been intensively investigated for implementation in various high-temperature biotechnological processes. Biocatalysts of hyperther...

    Authors: Marcel Suleiman, Anna Krüger and Garabed Antranikian

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:153

    Content type: Review

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  25. Phosphopantetheinyl transferase (PPTase) can change the acyl-carrier protein (ACP) from an inactive apo-ACP to an active holo-ACP that plays a key role in fatty acids biosynthesis. Currently, the PPTase has be...

    Authors: Sen Wang, Chuanzeng Lan, Zhuojun Wang, Weijian Wan, Qiu Cui and Xiaojin Song

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:152

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  26. Pretreatment processes and subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis are prerequisites to utilize lignocellulosic sugar for fermentation. However, the resulting hydrolysate frequently hinders fermentation processes due ...

    Authors: Jungwoo Yang, Ha Eun Kim, Young Hoon Jung, Jungyeon Kim, Do Hyoung Kim, Adrian R. Walmsley and Kyoung Heon Kim

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:151

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  27. Understanding the extracellular electron transport pathways in cyanobacteria is a major factor towards developing biophotovoltaics. Stressing cyanobacteria cells environmentally and then probing changes in phy...

    Authors: Tonny I. Okedi, Adrian C. Fisher and Kamran Yunus

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:150

    Content type: Methodology

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  28. Akebia trifoliata (Thunb.) Koidz may have applications as a new potential source of biofuels owing to its high seed count, seed oil content, and in-field yields. However, the pericarp of A. trifoliata cracks long...

    Authors: Juan Niu, Yaliang Shi, Kunyong Huang, Yicheng Zhong, Jing Chen, Zhimin Sun, Mingbao Luan and Jianhua Chen

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:149

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  29. While keeping in view various aspects of energy demand, quest for the renewable energy sources is utmost. Biomass has shown great potential as green energy source with supply of approximately 14% of world tota...

    Authors: Nadeem Tahir, Muhammad Naveed Tahir, Mujeeb Alam, Wang Yi and Quangou Zhang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:148

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  30. Dunaliella salina can produce glycerol under salt stress, and this production can quickly adapt to changes in external salt concentration. Notably, glycerol is an ideal energy source. In recent years, it has been...

    Authors: Ziyi Tang, Xiyue Cao, Yiping Zhang, Jia Jiang, Dairong Qiao, Hui Xu and Yi Cao

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:147

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  31. The yield of microalgae biomass is the key to affect the accumulation of fatty acids. A few microalgae can assimilate organic carbon to improve biomass yield. In mixotrophic cultivation, microalgae can use org...

    Authors: Yibo Xiao, Jianying Guo, Huachang Zhu, Anwar Muhammad, Haiteng Deng, Zhangli Hu and Qingyu Wu

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:146

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  32. The need to restructure the world’s energy matrix based on fossil fuels and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions stimulated the development of new biobased technologies for renewable energy. One promising and cle...

    Authors: João Gabriel Ribeiro Bueno, Guilherme Borelli, Thamy Lívia Ribeiro Corrêa, Mateus Bernabe Fiamenghi, Juliana José, Murilo de Carvalho, Leandro Cristante de Oliveira, Gonçalo A. G. Pereira and Leandro Vieira dos Santos

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:145

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  33. Acid pretreatment is a common strategy used to break down the hemicellulose component of the lignocellulosic biomass to release pentoses, and a subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis step is usually applied to releas...

    Authors: Qing Yang, Yongfu Yang, Ying Tang, Xia Wang, Yunhao Chen, Wei Shen, Yangyang Zhan, Junjie Gao, Bo Wu, Mingxiong He, Shouwen Chen and Shihui Yang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:144

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  34. Lignocellulose is the most abundant and renewable biomass resource on the planet. Lignocellulose can be converted into biofuels and high-value compounds; however, its recalcitrance makes its breakdown a challe...

    Authors: Xin Li, Chao Han, Weiguang Li, Guanjun Chen and Lushan Wang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:143

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  35. Hemicellulose accounts for a significant part of plant biomass, and still poses a barrier to the efficient saccharification of lignocellulose. The recalcitrant part of hemicellulose is a serious impediment to ...

    Authors: Anastasia Zerva, Christina Pentari, Sacha Grisel, Jean-Guy Berrin and Evangelos Topakas

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:142

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  36. Biomethanation is a promising solution to upgrade the CH4 content in biogas. This process consists in the injection of H2 into an anaerobic digester, using the capacity of indigenous hydrogenotrophic methanogens ...

    Authors: Lucia Braga Nan, Eric Trably, Gaëlle Santa-Catalina, Nicolas Bernet, Jean-Philippe Delgenès and Renaud Escudié

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:141

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  37. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Ying Wang, Ka-Lai Chan, Mohamed Ali Abdel-Rahman, Kenji Sonomoto and Shao-Yuan Leu

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:140

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    The original article was published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:112

  38. Wood provides an important biomass resource for biofuel production around the world. The radial growth of tree stems is central to biomass production for forestry and biofuels, but it is challenging to dissect...

    Authors: Xiao Han, Yi An, Yangyan Zhou, Chao Liu, Weilun Yin and Xinli Xia

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:139

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  39. Consolidated bioprocessing, which combines saccharolytic and fermentative abilities in a single microorganism, is receiving increased attention to decrease environmental and economic costs in lignocellulosic b...

    Authors: Joana T. Cunha, Aloia Romaní, Kentaro Inokuma, Björn Johansson, Tomohisa Hasunuma, Akihiko Kondo and Lucília Domingues

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:138

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  40. Trichoderma reesei is one of the best-known cellulolytic organisms, producing large quantities of a complete set of extracellular cellulases and hemicellulases for the degradation of lignocellulosic substances. H...

    Authors: Yun Luo, Mari Valkonen, Raymond E. Jackson, Jonathan M. Palmer, Aditya Bhalla, Igor Nikolaev, Markku Saloheimo and Michael Ward

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:137

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  41. Cellobiohydrolase from glycoside hydrolase family 7 is a major component of commercial enzymatic mixtures for lignocellulosic biomass degradation. For many years, Trichoderma reesei Cel7A (TrCel7A) has served as ...

    Authors: Bartłomiej M. Kołaczkowski, Kay S. Schaller, Trine Holst Sørensen, Günther H. J. Peters, Kenneth Jensen, Kristian B. R. M. Krogh and Peter Westh

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:136

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  42. Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are often studied in simple models involving activity measurements of a single LPMO or a blend thereof with hydrolytic enzymes towards an insoluble substrate. Howeve...

    Authors: Majid Haddad Momeni, Maria Louise Leth, Claus Sternberg, Erwin Schoof, Maike Wennekers Nielsen, Jesper Holck, Christopher T. Workman, Jakob Blæsbjerg Hoof and Maher Abou Hachem

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:135

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  43. Brassica napus is one of the most important oilseed crops, and also an important biofuel plant due to its low air pollution and renewability. Growth period are important traits that affect yield and are crucial f...

    Authors: Tengyue Wang, Lijuan Wei, Jia Wang, Ling Xie, Yang Yang Li, Shuyao Ran, Lanyang Ren, Kun Lu, Jiana Li, Michael P. Timko and Liezhao Liu

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:134

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  44. Lupeol exhibits novel physiological and pharmacological activities, such as anticancer and immunity-enhancing activities. However, cytotoxicity remains a challenge for triterpenoid overproduction in microbial ...

    Authors: Jin-Lai Zhang, Qiu-Yan Bai, Yang-Zi Peng, Jie Fan, Cong-Cong Jin, Ying-Xiu Cao and Ying-Jin Yuan

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:133

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  45. Fumarate is a multifunctional dicarboxylic acid in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, but microbial engineering for fumarate production is limited by the transmission efficiency of its biosynthetic pathway.

    Authors: Xiulai Chen, Danlei Ma, Jia Liu, Qiuling Luo and Liming Liu

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:132

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  46. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an important omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid that has a variety of physiological functions for infant development and human health. Although metabolic engineering wa...

    Authors: Xiao Han, Zhunan Zhao, Ying Wen and Zhi Chen

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:131

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  48. Nitrogen (N) starvation in algae induces a variety of structural and metabolic changes including accumulation of triacylglycerol (TAG). Given the promising prospect of using algae as feedstock for biofuel prod...

    Authors: Feifei Xu and Junmin Pan

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:129

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  49. Chromochloris zofingiensis, an oleaginous microalga, is a promising feedstock for the co-production of triacylglycerol (TAG)-based biodiesel and the high-value product astaxanthin. To reveal the molecular mechani...

    Authors: Xuemei Mao, Yongmin Lao, Han Sun, Xiaojie Li, Jianfeng Yu and Feng Chen

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:128

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  50. Heterotrophic microbial oils are potentially a more sustainable alternative to vegetable or fossil oils for food and fuel applications. However, as almost all work in the area is conducted on the laboratory sc...

    Authors: Felix Abeln, Robert H. Hicks, Hadiza Auta, Mauro Moreno-Beltrán, Luca Longanesi, Daniel A. Henk and Christopher J. Chuck

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:127

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