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PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE SPIEDigitalLibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie Effect of local thermoplasmonic heating on biological membranes Guillermo Moreno-Pescador, Iliriana Qoqaj, Victoria Thusgaard Ruhoff, Josephine Iversen, Jesper Nylandsted, et al. Guillermo Moreno-Pescador, Iliriana Qoqaj, Victoria Thusgaard Ruhoff, Josephine Iversen, Jesper Nylandsted, Poul Martin Bendix, "Effect of local thermoplasmonic heating on biological membranes," Proc. SPIE 11083, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XVI, 110830M (9 September 2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2530154 Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2019, San Diego, California, United States Downloaded From: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie on 12 Sep 2019 Terms of Use: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/terms-of-use

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Effect of local thermoplasmonicheating on biological membranes

Guillermo Moreno-Pescador, Iliriana Qoqaj, VictoriaThusgaard Ruhoff, Josephine Iversen, Jesper Nylandsted,et al.

Guillermo Moreno-Pescador, Iliriana Qoqaj, Victoria Thusgaard Ruhoff,Josephine Iversen, Jesper Nylandsted, Poul Martin Bendix, "Effect of localthermoplasmonic heating on biological membranes," Proc. SPIE 11083,Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XVI, 110830M (9 September2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2530154

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Effect of local thermoplasmonic heating on biologicalmembranes

Guillermo Moreno-Pescadora, Iliriana Qoqaja, Victoria Thusgaard Ruhoffa, Josephine F.Iversena, Jesper Nylandstedb,c, and Poul Martin Bendixa

aNiels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen,Denmark

bDanish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen,Denmark

cDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University ofCopenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.

ABSTRACT

Optical trapping of plasmonic nanoparticles for controlled nanoscopic damage of cellular plasma membranes canbe used to gain deeper insight into the role of plasma membrane repair proteins. Here we present a syntheticplatform of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) in the vicinity of trapped nanoplasmonic particles as a proposedmodel assay to characterize the permeability of a damaged GUV membrane, i.e. size of an inflicted hole. Watersoluble fluorescent molecules with different sizes are used to characterize the extent of the membrane lesion sincetheir differential permeability will provide information about the size of the rupture. We find that trapped goldnanoparticles can create substantial holes, observed via the discriminating influx of various sized molecules acrossthe membrane. The technique, yet unrefined, provides groundwork for future investigations of annexin repairproteins, using nanoscopic heating of plasmonic particles to create quantifiable membrane damage.

Keywords: optical trapping, plasmonic heating, artificial membranes, annexins

1. INTRODUCTION

The cellular plasma membrane is essentially a semipermeable barrier that is not simply a vessel protecting thecell from the extracellular environment, but also regulates a variety of key cellular processes vital for its survival.While small uncharged molecules can pass the membrane by diffusion, large ions (e.g. Ca2+) or , however,particles are tightly regulated by specific proteins and dedicated pathways.

Plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) irradiated with light also affect the permeability of plasma membrane due totheir heat generation capacity. In1,2 it was shown how using an optically trapped gold nanoparticles (AuNP) asa local heat source, a local lipid phase transition can be achieved. At the transition temperature the permeabilityfor certain molecules was observed. Complementary, we can use phase transition of lipids to characterize theheating capabilities of plasmonic particles.3,4

Beyond the heating capabilities of trapped NPs, there are also other associated effects, such as the ther-mophoretic effect and convection, to be taken into account. These effects are proportional to the heat gradient,which can be extremely high near a NP but quickly levels off at few 100nm away from the NP. If the NPsare irradiated using a focused laser beam, they will also experience gradient forces (see Section 2.2) coupledto the plasmonic effects.5 Recently, a new technique called opto-injection has been explored for injecting NPsinto cells;6 it relies on the optical pressure (Fabs + Fscat) exerted on the NP and the combined heating used todisrupt the plasma membrane. This technique has been used for a number of applications like injecting signal-ing molecules for focal adhesion activation,7 as a molecular release mechanism in red blood cells,8 delivery oftherapeutic nano-structures9 and even cell transfection.10

Further author information (Send correspondence to Prof. Poul Martin Bendix)(PM. Bendix)E-mail: [email protected](G. Moreno-Pescador)E-mail: [email protected]

Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XVI, edited by Kishan Dholakia, Gabriel C. Spalding, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 11083, 110830M · © 2019 SPIE

CCC code: 0277-786X/19/$21 · doi: 10.1117/12.2530154

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However, so far the nature of the membrane puncture occurring in membranes upon artificially inducedrupture, by thermoplasmonics or other techniques like pulsed laser puncture,11 remains poorly understood. In1

it was shown that membranes exposed to localized heating exhibited transient leakage near the phase transitionof the membrane. This may also be the case for fluid phase membranes since transient passive leakage hasalso been measured for fluid phase membranes by patch clamp techniques.12,13 The characterization of thephysical hole induced by thermoplasmonics is of great interest since this technique has a great potential to beused for investigating the role of membrane repair proteins in healing membrane ruptures.Here, we explicitlyaddress the size of the induced rupture in fluid membranes by including water soluble fluorophores of differenthydrodynamic radii and monitor their influx upon local heating. We show that optical trapping of differentplasmonic nanoparticles can be used for locally heating the membranes while confocal microscopy is used tovisualize the influx of the reported molecules. Furthermore we addressed the theoretical uncertainty of theheating based on shell thickness of different NPs.

2. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

2.1 Reagents

Dextran, Alexa Flour 647 (dextran) and Alexa Flour 488 Hydrazide (alexa488), and Alexa Flour 633 Hydrazide(alexa633) from ThermoFisher (D22914,A10436,A30634), are added to 500 µL observation buffer to get a 5mM concentration of both. 2.5 µL dextran from a stock solution containing 10 g/L dextran are added to the500 µL observation buffer and 1.45 µL Alexa488 from a stock solution containing 1 g/L Alexa488 are added tothe same 500 µL observation buffer as well. A gold nanoparticle colloid suspension is created by adding 1 µLAuNPs (100 nm or 200nm) from stock solution to 100 µL observation buffer and sonicating for 2-5 min beforeuse. The AuNP are coated with Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) in order to prevent aggregation of the particlesand stabilize them in solution. Gold nanoshells (AuNS) were also used, their core consisting of a 120 ± 4nmsilica sphere upon which a thin gold shell (20 ± 7nm) has been grown giving a total diameter of the complex of∼ 160nm (Nanocomposix, CA USA). To generate C-terminal GFP-tagged recombinant Annexin A5 (ANXA5)protein, ANXA5 cDNA was subcloned into pETM11SUMO3sfGFP.14 Proteins were produced using ImmobilizedMetal-Affinity Chromatography (IMAC) followed by fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC).

2.2 Optical trapping and imaging

Confocal imaging was performed on a Leica SP5 confocal microscope into which an optical trap, based on a 1064nm laser (Spectra Physics J201-BL-106C), was implemented [REF 14]. Optical trapping was done at the focalplane of the microscope and by using a Leica PL APO, NA=1.2, 63X water immersion objective to tightly focusthe laser light. The optical trap was stationary, but the trap could be moved relative to the GUVs by translatingthe sample which was mounted on a piezoelectric stage (PI 731.20, Physik Instrumente, Germany) allowinglateral movements with nanometer precision. A glass bottom open chamber, containing the GUVs, molecularfluorescence probes and gold nanoparticles, was mounted on the microscope and kept at room temperature duringthe experiment. The 488 nm argon laser line was used to excite the Dextran and GFp fluorophores. A 613 nmlaser line was used to excite the Alexa 613 hydrasize fluorophore. To detect the scattered and reflected lightfrom the AuNPs, a 476 nm argon laser line was used in reflection mode.

2.3 Plasmonic heating

The temperature profile around an irradiated NP can be found by solving the heat transfer equation15 wherethe local heat intensity comes from light dissipation inside the irradiated NP,16 the temperature increase ∆T (r)can be written as a function of distance to the source (r) as:17

∆T (r) =V Q

4πkr, r > R, (1)

where R is the radius of the spherical NP, k is the thermal conductivity of water (0.58 W/mK in water atroom temperature), V is the volume of the particle and Q is the local heat dissipation.18 From19 equation (1)can be re-written to relate the increase of temperature to the cross section absorption Cabs as

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∆T (r) =ICabs

4πkr, (2)

where ρ and Cp are the density and the specific heat capacity at constant pressure, respectively. ∆T (r) is therelative temperature increase relative to ambient temperature and κ is the thermal conductivity. Q = ICabs is ameasure of the generated heat (the amount of heat produced per unit time and volume inside the NP), largelycontributed by Joule heating inside the NP. I is the intensity of the laser irradiation at the sample plane. Thetemperature profile around an irradiated NP is governed by eq. 1, which reaches a steady state within tens ofnanoseconds, satisfying Laplace’s equation. The solution for the temperature gradient will be a simple functionof distance, r, to the surface of the NP with radius of R.

Through Mie based calculations,20 we can calculate the absorption cross section,Cabs, from which the tem-perature profiles of irradiated strongly absorbing nanoparticles21 can be obtained. Figures 2.C/D shows equation2 plotted as a function of distance to the particle center.

2.4 Silica-gold nanoshells (AuNS)

We mostly used the AuNSs conjugated with a polymer (polyethylene glycol PEG). The voluminous PEG chainscan reduce the adhesion of the particles through steric repulsion, thus preventing them from attaching to the cellsurfaces and from agglomerating. Unlike non-PEGylated NPs, they will remain longer in suspension, minimizingthe number of single particles sedimenting at the bottom of the chamber during the experiments. All thesefactors increase the probabilities of a particle being trapped while trying to study permeability of membranes.

The plasmonic resonance for these particles can be tuned over the NIR range by changing the core/shellratio, with smaller shell thickness shifting the plasmon resonance towards higher wavelengths. Smaller coresgive plasmon resonances in the visible region but by increasing the size of the core and decreasing the thicknessof the shell the plasmon resonance can be shifted to wavelengths deep into the infrared. This tunability doeshowever come with some drawbacks: during the fabrication of these NPs there is always a tolerance for error.The specifications of the AuNSs that we normally use, report an indicated tolerance of ±4nm for the core and±7nm for the shell. Even though these tolerances are of the same order for the AuNP (i.e ±5nm), the impacton the plasmonic properties of the NPs is vastly different. A change of a few nanometers in the core size of asolid gold NP has little effect on the plasmonic properties (i.e. the Cabs). However, for the AuNSs the effectof a small change of a few nanometers (specially in the shell thickness) has a dramatic impact on the plasmonresonance. Therefore, when utilizing AuNSs for experiments one needs to realize the heterogeneity in plasmonicheating that they entail compared to AuNPs.

This effect is clearly demonstrated by the calculations in Figure 1, where we compare the Cabs for differentAuNS with the 200 nm AuNP (in dashed black). Small changes in the Core-Shell configuration can lead todifference in the absorbance cross section of one order of magnitude - see green and purple curves in Figure 1.It is worth keeping in mind that the temperature increase is directly proportional to Cabs (see eq.(2)), meaningthat the increase on temperature will be so large that the particle will probably instantly disintegrate underplasmonic resonance. The lack of thermal stability of the nanoscale gold layer was observed in22 by using SEMon irradiated gold nanoshells which had similar dimensions as here.

The silica-gold nanoshells are very strong scatters. In fact, the ratio between scattering and absorptionefficiency is about seven. This is not only the case for AuNSs; in general, the larger the particle, the morethe tendency to scatter dominates over absorption of light. Unfortunately, metallic NPs have relatively highextinction cross sections and hence experience significant radiation pressure (which scales linearly with Cext), inan optical trap.23 These large scattering forces complicate stable trapping and the NP tends to fall into localintensity maxima outside of the main focus of the optical tweezers,24 where heating is much reduced due to thelower intensity.

Another important factor we need to be aware of, in fact, is that AuNSs will be hotter at their surface. Sincethey are smaller than a 200 nm AuNP, therefore by looking again at eq.2, one can see that at equal Cabs andlaser intensity smaller particles will get significantly hotter.

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Despite their drawbacks, AuNSs (specially when PEGylated) are a more efficient tool than other NPs of samesize to perform membrane fusions and membrane rupturing studies25 and some “unpublished results” where thetemperature at the particle surface is most critical.

Figure 1. Absorption cross sections for 200 nm (dashed black) AuNPs and a collection of AuNS with different sizes of coreand shells, calculated with NanoComposix Mie Calculator. The plasmon resonance shifts when the gold shell is madethinner. The absorption cross section for the wavelength of interest (1064 nm) is highlighted in blue.

2.5 Vesicle swelling

Polyvinyl alcohol gel (PVA) (5%, 50 mM sucrose, 25 mM NaCl/Tris) was heated in a 60 degrees oven for 20 min.Glass slides was first cleaned in ethanol and dried with ultra spray, followed by heating in an air Plasma Cleanermodel Harrick Plasma cleaner PDC-002 in the high mode setting with pressure in between 200-400 turns for3 to 5 min. 90 µL of warm PVA gel was applied on the clean glass slides, after which they were heated in 50C oven for 50 min. Subsequently The vesicles were grown on top of the prepared PVA glass slides. A 50 µLglass Hamilton syringe was cleaned in chloroform to ensure minimum contamination. 30 µL of prepared (95%DOPC, 5% DOPS) was added on top of the PVA gel layer on the glass slides. The applied lipidmix was driedwith nitrogen in 30 sec followed by vacuum drying for 2 hours. A clean vesicle chamber was used to grow thevesicles. 350 µL growing buffer (NaCl 70mM, Tris (pH 7.4) 25 mM, Sucrose 80 mM) was added to the chamberon top of the PVA-coated glass slide and the vesicles were left to form for 1 hour and 5 min. 340 µL of vesicleand buffer solution was collected from the chamber and deposited in an Eppendorf tube. 300 µL observationbuffer (NaCl 70 mM, Tris (pH 7.4) 50 mM, Glucose 55 mM) where added for the vesicles to sink to the bottom.

2.6 Protein encapsulation

Annexin A5 (900nM) was added to the prepared cover glass. Followed by an addition of the prepared growingbuffer at room temperature (total volume of 300 L) was then set to form encapsulated annexin A5 giant unil-amellar vesicles for 1 hour and 5 minutes. The vesicle solution was extracted by pipetting directly from thecover glass into an Eppendorf tube and 1000 L observation buffer. The vesicles were set to sink for 5 minutesfollowed by centrifugation at 600 rcf for 10 minutes at 13C. Subsequently the added observation buffer wascarefully removed from the top and down to ensure minimal loss of GUVs and to remove excess annexin A5 onthe outside.

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2.7 Data analysis

All images were analyzed using Matlab (The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, Massachusetts, United States) as wellas the temperatures calculated in Figure 2.C/D were plotted using Matlab and calculations were based on Miesequations.20

3. RESULTS

3.1 Effect of local heating on artificial membranes

It is broadly understood that a strong increase of temperature on a nanoscopic area can in turn lead to anincrease of membrane permeability26,27 especially near a phase transition.1,13 The mechanism behind leakageof fluid phase membranes is most likely thermal expansion of the membrane which increases the likelihood fortransient opening of the bilayer. Fluid membranes expand around 0.5%/K28 and hence strong local heating caneasily cause expansion of the lipid packing and eventually result in a mechanical disruption of the membraneand the formation of pores.29 Permeation near a phase transition has been suggested to occur by enhancedthermal fluctuations of membranes in the vicinity of the phase transition temperature which could lead tothermally activated transient pores.12,13 We have also just mentioned how this alteration of lipid ordering hasbeen reported and used to quantify plasmonic heating of a range of NPs.1–4 There is still, however, a lack ofexperimental characterization of permeability effects in the fluid membranes which are studied here.

By controlling both the distance between the bilayer/vesicle and the particle and the trapping power, theparticle surface temperature can rise by several hundred Kelvin even at moderate trapping laser powers - seeFigure 2.C/D. It has also been shown how the particle temperature can be controlled with a precision of afew degrees by tuning particle size and laser power.25 Using this spatially/thermally controlled system we havedeveloped a simple assay to quantify the size of permeation events induced by local heating of trapped NPs,depicted in 2.A. A 100 nm AuNP was trapped and placed in the vicinity of a GUV in the chamber with buffersolution containing fluorophore as a reporter for permeability and size.

Any distance larger than 1.5µm will result in temperature increases of less than 5 degrees. As mentionedabove, the area and volume of membranes can be affected by temperature,30 so it is possible that the changein bilayer structure could result in porous membranes and thus cause diffusion across the membrane with anincrease in temperature.

The pore size induced by plasmonic heating can be assessed by using fluorophores conjugated to moleculeswith different molecular weight and hence with different molecular radius. In Figure 3 results are shown forthe same experiment depicted in Figure 2.A, but using two probes with very different sizes instead of one. Thesame Alexa488 hydrazide (small probe, MW:570) and a bigger sized Dextran-647 (bigger probe, MW:10000).The small Alexa488 probe leaked in faster than the bigger Dextran conjugated dye thus showing that the poreshave a size comparable to the size of the probing molecules. The fact that both probes do leak at the sametemperatures could indicate that the pores are fluctuating in size and therefore could allow passage of differentsized molecules although with different size dependent probability for the two fluorophores. However, we cannotget conclusive results from this type of experiments. It is clear that we are dealing with nanoscopic pores whenthe hot nanoparticle gets close to the membrane. No microscopic hole was observed with 100nm AuNPs: thesewould be detectable with a confocal microscope. Also, holes of micron size would fill the vesicle much faster thanmeasured here, since the diffusion of the utilized probes is ca. 300 µm2/s.31

3.2 Membrane repair proteins can be studied using thermoplasmonics

We continued the same approach of the previous experiments, where we investigated the permeability of GUVmembranes. Using the same experimental set up, thermoplasmonics can additionally be used for studying howproteins react to perforation of membranes. We used the local heating of plasmonic nanoparticles near membranesto cause micron-size holes and the response of membrane repair annexins was investigated - See Figure 4. Unlikethe previous experiments, however, here we encapsulated recombinant ANXA5-GFP using the PVA gel hydrationmethod described in Section 2.6. The GUVs were composed of 95% DOPC lipids and 5% DOPS lipids. We used a900 nM ANXA5-GFP growing buffer (70 mM of NaCl, 25 mM of Tris, 80 mM sucrose) solution for the hydrationof the GUVs. Upon collection of the vesicles, they were spun down for 10 minutes at 100C at 900g diluted in

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Figure 2. Quantification of permeability events in model membranes. (A) Schematic illustration of the experiment withGUV surrounded by free diffusive molecules which differ in size. Diffusion of the molecules across the GUV membranedepends on the size of the thermoplasmonic-created hole by the optical trapping of a gold nanoparticle.(B) Confocalimage of an empty GUV composed of only DOPC lipids in a chamber full of Alexa633 dye (in green). (C) Heatingcapabilities of trapped metallic NP. 3D calculation of the heat profiles for gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) of 100 and 200 nmin diameter. (D) A 2D cross section of such heat profiles calculated earlier. All calculations are done considering wateras the surrounding medium, and laser irradiation of 1064 nm wavelength with laser intensity of I = 9 × 1010W/m2.

an observation buffer (70 mM NaCl, 50 mM Tris and 55 mM Glucose) to wash the excess ANXA5-GFP. Theywere re-suspended in the observation chamber containing observation buffer with added 2 mM of CaCl2, underthe confocal microscope for the experiments. The presence of Ca2+ ions facilitates the binding of ANXA5-GFPto the membrane (See Figure 4). We chose AuNSs for this experiments instead of 100 nm AuNPs, because

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Figure 3. Quantification of permeability events in model membranes. Intensities of Dextran-Alexa647 (pink signal) andAlexa488 (green signal) inside a GUV, ambient temperature of T=23.10C. Distances between opticaly trapped 100 nmparticle (white dot) and the GUV (darker area) are imaged with the time-step and a 5 µm scale bar. (a) Plot and imageof intensity inside GUV with a distance of 2.16 µm to the AuNP. (b) Plot and image of intensity inside GUV with adistance of 1.17 µm to the AuNP. (c) Plot and image of intensity inside GUV with the AuNP at the membrane, showingincrease in intensity signal.

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we need to generate sufficient heat to expand the membrane sufficiently to generate permeability events as theones shown in Figure 3 large enough to generate a response from the encapsulated annexins. When trappingAuNSs with sufficient power and vicinity to the GUV with encapsulated Annexin 5 recombinant protein, wecould successfully generate a local response of the protein to the area of injured membrane.

As shown in Figure 4.B, we observed up-concentration of ANXA5 in the vicinity of the membrane andthe trapped nanoparticle. The up-concentration of protein increases gradually until vesicle collapse. This isin agreement with ANXA5 inducing the cooperative roll-up of supported membranes reported in Ref.32 Intheir work, authors added different recombinant annexin proteins to supported lipid bilayers, observing strongcurvature and membrane rolling initiated in the free edges. Furthermore it is also remarkable how the clusteringbehaviour of ANXA5 upon membrane lesion is in agreement with recently published results33 which also resemblesthe proposed mechanisms of annexins wound repairing.34–36

Figure 4. Plasmonic heating induces membrane permeability, allowing to study membrane repair proteins. (A) Schematicillustration of the experiment with ANXA5 encapsulated in a GUV. A trapped AuNs in the vicinity of the GUV willgenerate enough heat to provoke expansion of the membrane when sufficiently close. (B) Montage with the time evolutionof up-concentration of ANXA5 in the vicinity of a trapped AuNS in GUV with ANXA5 bound to the membrane. Scalebar is 10µm.

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4. CONCLUSION

Optical trapping works for a range of different AuNPs, inducing plasmonic heating in a nanoscopic range aroundthe particle. Here, we have presented a model assay to quantify membrane lesions utilizing localized nanoplas-monic heating of AuNPs. Our results demonstrate that this technique can be utilized to induce local membranedamage, monitored by the discrimination in influx of differently sized fluorophores across the membrane.

Thermoplasmonic driven membrane remodelling has proved to be extremely useful to study biological mem-branes. The heat generation capabilities combined with the large degree of localization and control is the keyof this success. In this proceeding we theoretically evaluated a number of commercially available gold nanos-tructrues in the context of thermoplasmonic heating in the near-infrared region with specific attention on theuncertainty in the fabrication of delicate plasmonic nanostructrues. Novel methods that this technique allowsinclude characterization of temperature dependent membrane permeability and membrane rupturing. Usingoptically controlled thermoplasmonics offers a way to trigger both small and larger pores in lipid membranes.Combined with encapsulation of proteins this strategy allows for the investigation of membrane repair effectsfrom annexins or investigations of proteins on membrane free edges surrounding larger ruptures. In this mannerit is possible to study curvature generation effects by proteins.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work is financially supported by Danish Council for Independent Research, Natural Sciences (DFF-4181-00196) and by a Novo Nordisk Foundation Interdisciplinary Synergy Program 2018 (NNF18OC0034936).

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