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  1. Nitrogen deprivation and replenishment induces massive changes at the physiological and molecular level in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, including reversible starch and lipid accumulation. Stress sign...

    Authors: Valentin Roustan, Shiva Bakhtiari, Pierre-Jean Roustan and Wolfram Weckwerth
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:280
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  2. The transition to a more environmentally friendly economy has prompted studies of modern biorefineries, including the utilization of low-value lignocellulose. The major challenge facing the widespread applicat...

    Authors: Yu-Si Yan, Shuai Zhao, Lu-Sheng Liao, Qi-Peng He, Ya-Ru Xiong, Long Wang, Cheng-Xi Li and Jia-Xun Feng
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:279
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  3. Trichoderma reesei is considered a candidate fungal enzyme producer for the economic saccharification of cellulosic biomass. However, performance of the saccharifying enzymes produced ...

    Authors: Nozomu Shibata, Mari Suetsugu, Hiroshi Kakeshita, Kazuaki Igarashi, Hiroshi Hagihara and Yasushi Takimura
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:278
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  4. A future bioeconomy relies on the efficient use of renewable resources for energy and material product supply. In this context, biorefineries have been developed and play a key role in converting lignocellulos...

    Authors: Julian Lange, Felix Müller, Kerstin Bernecker, Nicolaus Dahmen, Ralf Takors and Bastian Blombach
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:277
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  5. Current approaches for quantification of major energy-storage forms in microalgae, including starch, protein and lipids, generally require cell cultivation to collect biomass followed by tedious and time-consu...

    Authors: Yuehui He, Peng Zhang, Shi Huang, Tingting Wang, Yuetong Ji and Jian Xu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:275
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  6. Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973 is the fastest growing cyanobacterium characterized to date. Its genome was found to be 99.8% identical to S. elongatus 7942 yet it grows twice as fas...

    Authors: Mary H. Abernathy, Jingjie Yu, Fangfang Ma, Michelle Liberton, Justin Ungerer, Whitney D. Hollinshead, Saratram Gopalakrishnan, Lian He, Costas D. Maranas, Himadri B. Pakrasi, Doug K. Allen and Yinjie J. Tang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:273
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  7. The enzymes for efficient hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass are a major factor in the development of an economically feasible cellulose bioconversion process. Up to now, low hydrolysis efficiency and high ...

    Authors: Jia Gao, Yuanchao Qian, Yifan Wang, Yinbo Qu and Yaohua Zhong
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:272
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  8. Lignocellulosic biomass is an important resource for renewable production of biofuels and bioproducts. Enzymes that deconstruct this biomass are critical for the viability of biomass-based biofuel production p...

    Authors: Timo Schuerg, Jan-Philip Prahl, Raphael Gabriel, Simon Harth, Firehiwot Tachea, Chyi-Shin Chen, Matthew Miller, Fabrice Masson, Qian He, Sarah Brown, Mona Mirshiaghi, Ling Liang, Lauren M. Tom, Deepti Tanjore, Ning Sun, Todd R. Pray…
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:271
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  9. The Bacillus subtilis endo-β-1,4-glucanase (BsCel5A) hydrolyzes β-1,3-1,4-linked glucan, and the enzyme includes a family 3 carbohydrate-binding module (CBM3) that binds β-1,4-linked glucan.

    Authors: Raquel Fonseca-Maldonado, Luana P. Meleiro, Luís F. S. Mendes, Luana F. Alves, Sibeli Carli, Lucas D. Morero, Luis G. M. Basso, Antonio J. Costa-Filho and Richard J. Ward
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:269
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  10. The need for liquid fuels in the transportation sector is increasing, and it is essential to develop industrially sustainable processes that simultaneously address the tri-fold sustainability metrics of techno...

    Authors: Karthik Rajendran and Ganti S. Murthy
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:268
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  11. Genome editing techniques are critical for manipulating genes not only to investigate their functions in biology but also to improve traits for genetic engineering in biotechnology. Genome editing has been gre...

    Authors: Seungjib Jeon, Jong-Min Lim, Hyung-Gwan Lee, Sung-Eun Shin, Nam Kyu Kang, Youn-Il Park, Hee-Mock Oh, Won-Joong Jeong, Byeong-ryool Jeong and Yong Keun Chang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:267
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  12. Genome and transcriptome sequencing has greatly facilitated the understanding of biomass-degrading mechanisms in a number of fungal species. The information obtained enables the investigation and discovery of ...

    Authors: Silvia Hüttner, Thanh Thuy Nguyen, Zoraide Granchi, Thomas Chin-A-Woeng, Dag Ahrén, Johan Larsbrink, Vu Nguyen Thanh and Lisbeth Olsson
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:265
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  13. To elucidate biogas microbial communities and processes, the application of high-throughput DNA analysis approaches is becoming increasingly important. Unfortunately, generated data can only partialy be interp...

    Authors: Irena Maus, Andreas Bremges, Yvonne Stolze, Sarah Hahnke, Katharina G. Cibis, Daniela E. Koeck, Yong S. Kim, Jana Kreubel, Julia Hassa, Daniel Wibberg, Aaron Weimann, Sandra Off, Robbin Stantscheff, Vladimir V. Zverlov, Wolfgang H. Schwarz, Helmut König…
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:264
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  15. The light/dark cycle is one of the most important factors affecting the microalgal growth and lipid accumulation. Biomass concentration and lipid productivity could be enhanced by optimization of light/dark cy...

    Authors: Chao Ma, Yan-Bo Zhang, Shih-Hsin Ho, De-Feng Xing, Nan-Qi Ren and Bing-Feng Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:260
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  16. Pig manure utilization and valorization is an important topic with tightening regulations focused on ecological and safety issues. By itself pig manure is a poor substrate for biogas production because of its ...

    Authors: Michał Gaworski, Sławomir Jabłoński, Izabela Pawlaczyk-Graja, Rafał Ziewiecki, Piotr Rutkowski, Anna Wieczyńska, Roman Gancarz and Marcin Łukaszewicz
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:259
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  18. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is an ideal model organism not only for the study of basic metabolic processes in both plants and animals but also the production of biofuels including hydrog...

    Authors: Yuting Wang, Xinqin Jiang, Changxing Hu, Ting Sun, Zhiyong Zeng, Xiaoqi Cai, Hui Li and Zhangli Hu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:257
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  19. Cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer on earth, is an alternative for fossil fuels as a renewable feedstock for the production of second-generation biofuels and other chemicals. The discovery of novel, highl...

    Authors: J. A. Méndez-Líter, J. Gil-Muñoz, M. Nieto-Domínguez, J. Barriuso, L. I. de Eugenio and M. J. Martínez
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:256
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  20. Using globally abundant crop residues as a carbon source for energy generation and renewable chemicals production stand out as a promising solution to reduce current dependency on fossil fuels. In nature, such...

    Authors: Bruno L. Mello, Anna M. Alessi, Diego M. Riaño-Pachón, Eduardo R. deAzevedo, Francisco E. G. Guimarães, Melissa C. Espirito Santo, Simon McQueen-Mason, Neil C. Bruce and Igor Polikarpov
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:254
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  21. Like a number of anaerobic and cellulolytic Gram-positive bacteria, the model microorganism Ruminiclostridium cellulolyticum produces extracellular multi-enzymatic complexes called cellulosomes, which efficiently...

    Authors: Aurélie Fosses, Maria Maté, Nathalie Franche, Nian Liu, Yann Denis, Romain Borne, Pascale de Philip, Henri-Pierre Fierobe and Stéphanie Perret
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:250
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  23. Enterobacter aerogenes is a facultative anaerobe and is one of the most widely studied bacterial strains because of its ability to use a variety of substrates, to produce hydrogen at a...

    Authors: Yan Wu, Yaqiao Hao, Xuan Wei, Qi Shen, Xuanwei Ding, Liyan Wang, Hongxin Zhao and Yuan Lu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:248
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  24. The sustainability of microbial lipids production from traditional carbon sources, such as glucose or glycerol, is problematic given the high price of raw materials. Considerable efforts have been directed to ...

    Authors: Ruiling Gao, Zifu Li, Xiaoqin Zhou, Shikun Cheng and Lei Zheng
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:247
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  25. Saccharification is the most crucial and cost-intensive process in second generation biofuel production. The deficiency of β-glucosidase in commercial enzyme leads to incomplete biomass hydrolysis. The decompo...

    Authors: Rameshwar Tiwari, Puneet Kumar Singh, Surender Singh, Pawan K. S. Nain, Lata Nain and Pratyoosh Shukla
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:246
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  26. The intrinsic structural properties of branched long-chain fatty alcohols (BLFLs) in the range of C12 to C18 make them more suitable as diesel fuel replacements and for other industrial applications than their...

    Authors: Wen Jiang, James B. Qiao, Gayle J. Bentley, Di Liu and Fuzhong Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:244
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  27. The organic acid producer Aspergillus oryzae and Rhizopus delemar are able to convert several alternative carbon sources to malic and fumaric acid. Thus, carbohydrate hydrolysates from lignocellulose separation a...

    Authors: Stefan Dörsam, Jana Fesseler, Olga Gorte, Thomas Hahn, Susanne Zibek, Christoph Syldatk and Katrin Ochsenreither
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:242
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  28. Economical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into biofuels and bioproducts is central to the establishment of a robust bioeconomy. This requires a conversion host that is able to both efficiently assimilat...

    Authors: Junko Yaegashi, James Kirby, Masakazu Ito, Jian Sun, Tanmoy Dutta, Mona Mirsiaghi, Eric R. Sundstrom, Alberto Rodriguez, Edward Baidoo, Deepti Tanjore, Todd Pray, Kenneth Sale, Seema Singh, Jay D. Keasling, Blake A. Simmons, Steven W. Singer…
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:241
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  29. Clostridium thermocellum is a paradigm for efficient cellulose degradation and a promising organism for the production of second generation biofuels. It owes its high degradation rate ...

    Authors: Benedikt Leis, Claudia Held, Fabian Bergkemper, Katharina Dennemarck, Robert Steinbauer, Alarich Reiter, Matthias Mechelke, Matthias Moerch, Sigrid Graubner, Wolfgang Liebl, Wolfgang H. Schwarz and Vladimir V. Zverlov
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:240
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  30. Microalgae have been demonstrated to be among the most promising phototrophic species for producing renewable biofuels and chemicals. Ethanol and butanol are clean energy sources with good chemical and physica...

    Authors: Yongguang Jiang, Peng Xiao, Qing Shao, Huan Qin, Zhangli Hu, Anping Lei and Jiangxin Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:239
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  31. Microbial extracellular electron transfer (EET) is essential in driving the microbial interspecies interaction and redox reactions in bioelectrochemical systems (BESs). Magnetite (Fe3O4) and magnetic fields (MFs)...

    Authors: Huihui Zhou, Bingfeng Liu, Qisong Wang, Jianmin Sun, Guojun Xie, Nanqi Ren, Zhiyong Jason Ren and Defeng Xing
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:238
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  32. Environmental issues, such as the fossil energy crisis, have resulted in increased public attention to use bioethanol as an alternative renewable energy. For ethanol production, water and nutrient consumption ...

    Authors: Yang You, Bo Wu, Yi-Wei Yang, Yan-Wei Wang, Song Liu, Qi-Li Zhu, Han Qin, Fu-Rong Tan, Zhi-Yong Ruan, Ke-Dong Ma, Li-Chun Dai, Min Zhang, Guo-Quan Hu and Ming-Xiong He
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:236
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  33. Bacillus licheniformis MW3 as a GRAS and thermophilic strain is a promising microorganism for chemical and biofuel production. However, its capacity to co-utilize glucose and xylose, the majo...

    Authors: Chao Li, Zhongchao Gai, Kai Wang and Liping Jin
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:235
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  34. Glycoside hydrolases are important for various industrial and scientific applications. Determination of their temperature as well as pH optima and range is crucial to evaluate whether an enzyme is suitable for...

    Authors: J. Herlet, P. Kornberger, B. Roessler, J. Glanz, W. H. Schwarz, W. Liebl and V. V. Zverlov
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:234
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  35. Acetoin (3-hydroxy-2-butanone), the precursor of biofuel 2,3-butanediol, is an important bio-based platform chemical with wide applications. Fermenting the low-cost and renewable plant biomass is undoubtedly a...

    Authors: Xiaojing Jia, Xiaowei Peng, Ying Liu and Yejun Han
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:232
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  36. Genetic engineering of microalgae is necessary to produce economically feasible strains for biofuel production. Current efforts are focused on the manipulation of individual metabolic genes, but the outcomes a...

    Authors: Nam Kyu Kang, Eun Kyung Kim, Young Uk Kim, Bongsoo Lee, Won-Joong Jeong, Byeong-ryool Jeong and Yong Keun Chang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:231
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  37. Photosynthetic microalgae are emerging as potential biomass feedstock for sustainable production of biofuels and value-added bioproducts. CO2 biomitigation through these organisms is considered as an eco-friendly...

    Authors: Bo Yang, Jin Liu, Xiaonian Ma, Bingbing Guo, Bin Liu, Tao Wu, Yue Jiang and Feng Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:229
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  38. The induction of cellulase production by insoluble carbon source cellulose was a common and efficient strategy, but has some drawbacks, such as difficult fermentation operation, substantial cellulase loss, lon...

    Authors: Chengcheng Li, Fengming Lin, Le Zhou, Lei Qin, Bingzhi Li, Zhihua Zhou, Mingjie Jin and Zhan Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:228
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  39. Wheat straw forms an important, reliable source of lignocellulosic biomass for use in second-generation ethanol production. However, there is limited understanding of the variation in quality of straw from cur...

    Authors: Samuel R. A. Collins, David R. Wilson, Graham K. Moates, Andrea L. Harper, Ian Bancroft and Keith W. Waldron
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:227
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  40. Bioethanol production from sustainable sources of biomass that limit effect on food production are needed and in a biorefinery approach co-products are desirable, obtained from both the plant material and from...

    Authors: Claire M. Hull, Andrew G. S. Warrilow, Nicola J. Rolley, Claire L. Price, Iain S. Donnison, Diane E. Kelly and Steven L. Kelly
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:226
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  41. Plant biomass degradation by fungal-derived enzymes is rapidly expanding in economic importance as a clean and efficient source for biofuels. The ability to rationally engineer filamentous fungi would facilita...

    Authors: Areejit Samal, James P. Craig, Samuel T. Coradetti, J. Philipp Benz, James A. Eddy, Nathan D. Price and N. Louise Glass
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:225
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  42. Plant lignocellulosic biomass can be a source of fermentable sugars for the production of second generation biofuels and biochemicals. The recalcitrance of this plant material is one of the major obstacles in ...

    Authors: Jan J. Lyczakowski, Krzysztof B. Wicher, Oliver M. Terrett, Nuno Faria-Blanc, Xiaolan Yu, David Brown, Kristian B. R. M. Krogh, Paul Dupree and Marta Busse-Wicher
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:224
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  43. Butyl butyrate has been considered as a promising fuel source because it is a kind of natural ester which can be converted from renewable and sustainable lignocellulosic biomass. Compared with the conventional...

    Authors: Xiaojie Duan, Yu Liu, Xin You, Zhengqiang Jiang, Shaoxiang Yang and Shaoqing Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:223
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  44. Bioethanol production processes involve enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars. Due to the relatively high cost of enzyme production, the development of potent and c...

    Authors: Shahar Yoav, Yoav Barak, Melina Shamshoum, Ilya Borovok, Raphael Lamed, Bareket Dassa, Yitzhak Hadar, Ely Morag and Edward A. Bayer
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:222
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  45. Biomass recalcitrance and plant lodging are two complex traits that tightly associate with plant cell wall structure and features. Although genetic modification of plant cell walls can potentially reduce recal...

    Authors: Chunfen Fan, Shengqiu Feng, Jiangfeng Huang, Yanting Wang, Leiming Wu, Xukai Li, Lingqiang Wang, Yuanyuan Tu, Tao Xia, Jingyang Li, Xiwen Cai and Liangcai Peng
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:221
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  46. Syngas fermentation, the bioconversion of CO, CO2, and H2 to biofuels and chemicals, has undergone considerable optimization for industrial applications. Even more, full-scale plants for ethanol production from s...

    Authors: Sofia Esquivel-Elizondo, Anca G. Delgado, Bruce E. Rittmann and Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:220
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  47. Concern about the inevitable depletion of global energy resources is rising and many countries are shifting their focus to renewable energy. Biodiesel is one promising energy source that has garnered much publ...

    Authors: Latifah Amin, Hasrizul Hashim, Zurina Mahadi, Maznah Ibrahim and Khaidzir Ismail
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:219
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  48. The selective lignin-degrading white-rot fungi are regarded to be the best lignin degraders and have been widely used for reducing the saccharification recalcitrance of lignocellulose. However, the biological ...

    Authors: Wen Kong, Xiao Fu, Lei Wang, Ahmad Alhujaily, Jingli Zhang, Fuying Ma, Xiaoyu Zhang and Hongbo Yu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:218
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  49. Use of bio-based diesel is increasing in Europe. It is currently produced from oilseed crops, but can also be generated from lignocellulosic biomass such as straw. However, removing straw affects soil organic ...

    Authors: Hanna Karlsson, Serina Ahlgren, Mats Sandgren, Volkmar Passoth, Ola Wallberg and Per-Anders Hansson
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:217
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  50. Non-conventional yeasts present a huge, yet barely exploited, resource of yeast biodiversity for industrial applications. This presents a great opportunity to explore alternative ethanol-fermenting yeasts that...

    Authors: Vaskar Mukherjee, Dorota Radecka, Guido Aerts, Kevin J. Verstrepen, Bart Lievens and Johan M. Thevelein
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:216
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