Dr. Till Luckenbach

Address:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Building: 6.0
Room: 229
Phone: +49 341 6025 1514

Curriculum Vitae

Till Luckenbach, a molecular ecotoxicologist, is a senior researcher at the Department Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology. He works at the UFZ since 2006. Luckenbach studied biology at the University of Tübingen, where in 2002 he also received his doctorate. In 2002 he was a postdoc at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, and, from 2002-2005, at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University in Pacific Grove, CA.
Funding for Till Luckenbach`s work was obtained from various sources, including the State of Baden-Württemberg (PhD fellowship), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; PhD and postdoc fellowships, bi-national exchanges with Croatia (Dr. Tvrtko Smital, RBI) and Spain (Dr. Barata, CSIC)), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; postdoc fellowship, early career grant), the Helmholtz Association (Helmholtz-Russia Joint Research Group with partners Irkutsk State University, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, University of Leipzig) and the UFZ (joint project of five UFZ departments).
Till Luckenbach received the SETAC Best Publication Award 2006

Luckenbach`s research interest is in molecular mechanisms that control the uptake of chemicals from the outside and interactions of environmental contaminants with this system. One focus of his work is on molecular "pumps" located in the outer membrane of cells. These pumps are transporter proteins that prevent toxic chemicals from accumulating inside the cell. Action of these proteins confers resistance of cells against a broad range of toxic chemicals, which is called multixenobiotic resistance or MXR. These transporters are important determinants of toxicokinetics of many chemicals. Luckenbach develops tests to study these transporters and study interaction of environmental chemicals with this defensive mechanism. A problem arising from such interaction could be that function of the transporter proteins is impaired and they lose some of their protective power. Study systems include the zebrafish embryo, marine and freshwater invertebrates and cellular systems. Various chemical (such as chemical uptake) and biological aspects (such as joint actions of chemicals in a mixture) with regard to active transport mechanisms are addressed in collaborations within the Biotox department and with colleagues from other departments.
Some of these aspects are currently explored in a field-related project at Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia. The lake is inhabited by a unique, species-rich endemic fauna and it is a question of high interest how this fauna is affected by the current rapid environmental changes regarding water chemistry and climate.

Publications

2011 - today

2023 (2)

Lipaeva, P., Karkossa, I., Bedulina, D., Schubert, K., Luckenbach, T. (2023):
Cold-adapted amphipod species upon heat stress: Proteomic responses and their correlation with transcriptomic responses
Comp. Biochem. Physiol. D-Genomics Proteomics 45 , art. 101048 10.1016/j.cbd.2022.101048
Lubyaga, Y., Yarinich, L., Drozdova, P., Pindyurin, A., Gurkov, A., Luckenbach, T., Timofeyev, M. (2023):
The ABCs of the amphipod P-glycoprotein: Heterologous production of the Abcb1 protein of a model species Eulimnogammarus verrucosus (Amphipoda: Gammaridae) from Lake Baikal
Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C-Toxicol. Pharmacol. 271 , art. 109677 10.1016/j.cbpc.2023.109677

2022 (5)

Halbach, K., Aulhorn, S., Lechtenfeld, O.J., Lecluse, M., Leippe, S., Reemtsma, T., Seiwert, B., Wagner, S., König, J., Luckenbach, T. (2022):
Zebrafish Oatp1d1 acts as a cellular efflux transporter of the anionic herbicide bromoxynil
Chem. Res. Toxicol. 35 (2), 315 - 325 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.1c00371
Ortmann, J., Altenburger, R., Scholz, S., Luckenbach, T. (2022):
Photomotor response data analysis approach to assess chemical neurotoxicity with the zebrafish embryo
ALTEX-Altern. Anim. Exp. 39 (1), 82 - 94 10.14573/altex.2004021
Simonetti, S., Zupo, V., Gambi, M.C., Luckenbach, T., Corsi, I. (2022):
Unraveling cellular and molecular mechanisms of acid stress tolerance and resistance in marine species: New frontiers in the study of adaptation to ocean acidification
Mar. Pollut. Bull. 185, Part B , art. 114365 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114365
Švara, V., Michalski, S.G., Krauss, M., Schulze, T., Geuchen, S., Brack, W., Luckenbach, T. (2022):
Reduced genetic diversity of freshwater amphipods in rivers with increased levels of anthropogenic organic micropollutants
Evol. Appl. 15 (6), 976 - 991 10.1111/eva.13387
Švara, V., Michalski, S.G., Krauss, M., Schulze, T., Geuchen, S., Brack, W., Luckenbach, T. (2022):
Reduced genetic diversity of freshwater amphipods in rivers with increased levels of anthropogenic organic micropollutants [Dataset]
Dryad 10.5061/dryad.zw3r2288p

2021 (6)

Bedulina, D., Drozdova, P., Gurkov, A., von Bergen, M., Stadler, P.F., Luckenbach, T., Timofeyev, M., Kalkhof, S. (2021):
Proteomics reveals sex-specific heat shock response of Baikal amphipod Eulimnogammarus cyaneus
Sci. Total Environ. 763 , art. 143008 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143008
Bieczynski, F., Burkhardt-Medicke, K., Luquet, C.M., Scholz, S., Luckenbach, T. (2021):
Chemical effects on dye efflux activity in live zebrafish embryos and on zebrafish Abcb4 ATPase activity
FEBS Lett. 595 (6), 828 - 843 10.1002/1873-3468.14015
Jakob, L., Vereshchagina, K.P., Tillmann, A., Rivarola-Duarte, L., Axenov-Gribanov, D.V., Bedulina, D.S., Gurkov, A.N., Drozdova, P., Timofeyev, M.A., Stadler, P.F., Luckenbach, T., Pörtner, H.-O., Sartoris, F.J., Lucassen, M. (2021):
Thermal reaction norms of key metabolic enzymes reflect divergent physiological and behavioral adaptations of closely related amphipod species
Sci. Rep. 11 , art. 4562 10.1038/s41598-021-83748-2
Lipaeva, P., Vereshchagina, K., Drozdova, P., Jakob, L., Kondrateva, E., Lucassen, M., Bedulina, D., Timofeyev, M., Stadler, P., Luckenbach, T. (2021):
Different ways to play it cool: Transcriptomic analysis sheds light on different activity patterns of three amphipod species under long-term cold exposure
Mol. Ecol. 30 (22), 5735 - 5751 10.1111/mec.16164
Švara, V., Krauss, M., Michalski, S.G., Altenburger, R., Brack, W., Luckenbach, T. (2021):
Chemical pollution levels in a river explain site-specific sensitivities to micropollutants within a genetically homogeneous population of freshwater amphipods
Environ. Sci. Technol. 55 (9), 6087 - 6096 10.1021/acs.est.0c07839
Vereshchagina, K., Kondrateva, E., Mutin, A., Jakob, L., Bedulina, D., Shchapova, E., Madyarova, E., Axenov-Gribanov, D., Luckenbach, T., Pörtner, H.-O., Lucassen, M., Timofeyev, M. (2021):
Low annual temperature likely prevents the Holarctic amphipod Gammarus lacustris from invading Lake Baikal
Sci. Rep. 11 , art. 10532 10.1038/s41598-021-89581-x

2020 (3)

Halbach, K., Ulrich, N., Goss, K.-U., Seiwert, B., Wagner, S., Scholz, S., Luckenbach, T., Bauer, C., Schweiger, N., Reemtsma, T. (2020):
Yolk sac of zebrafish embryos as backpack for chemicals?
Environ. Sci. Technol. 54 (16), 10159 - 10169 10.1021/acs.est.0c02068
Protopopova, M.V., Pavlichenko, V.V., Luckenbach, T. (2020):
Changes of cellular stress response related hsp70 and abcb1 transcript and Hsp70 protein levels in Siberian freshwater amphipods upon exposure to cadmium chloride in the lethal concentration range
PeerJ 8 , e8635 10.7717/peerj.8635
Shatilina, Z., Drozdova, P., Bedulina, D., Rivarola-Duarte, L., Schreiber, S., Otto, C., Jühling, F., Aulhorn, S., Busch, W., Lubyaga, Y., Kondrateva, E., Pobezhimova, T., Jakob, L., Lucassen, M., Sartoris, F.J., Hackermüller, J., Pörtner, H.-O., Stadler, P.F., Luckenbach, T., Timofeyev, M. (2020):
Transcriptome-level effects of the model organic pollutant phenanthrene and its solvent acetone in three amphipod species
Comp. Biochem. Physiol. D-Genomics Proteomics 33 , art. 100630 10.1016/j.cbd.2019.100630

2019 (5)

Drozdova, P., Bedulina, D., Madyarova, E., Rivarola-Duarte, L., Schreiber, S., Stadler, P.F., Luckenbach, T., Timofeyev, M. (2019):
Description of strongly heat-inducible heat shock protein 70 transcripts from Baikal endemic amphipods
Sci. Rep. 9 , art. 8907 10.1038/s41598-019-45193-0
Drozdova, P., Rivarola-Duarte, L., Bedulina, D., Axenov-Gribanov, D., Schreiber, S., Gurkov, A., Shatilina, Z., Vereshchagina, K., Lubyaga, Y., Madyarova, E., Otto, C., Jühling, F., Busch, W., Jakob, L., Lucassen, M., Sartoris, F.J., Hackermüller, J., Hoffmann, S., Pörtner, H.-O., Luckenbach, T., Timofeyev, M., Stadler, P.F. (2019):
Comparison between transcriptomic responses to short-term stress exposures of a common Holarctic and endemic Lake Baikal amphipods
BMC Genomics 20 , art. 712 10.1186/s12864-019-6024-3
Gurkov, A., Rivarola-Duarte, L., Bedulina, D., Fernández Casas, I., Michael, H., Drozdova, P., Nazarova, A., Govorukhina, E.B., Timofeyev, M., Stadler, P.F., Luckenbach, T. (2019):
Indication of ongoing amphipod speciation in Lake Baikal by genetic structures within endemic species
BMC Evol. Biol. 19 , art. 138 10.1186/s12862-019-1470-8
Halbach, K., Wagner, S., Scholz, S., Luckenbach, T., Reemtsma, T. (2019):
Elemental imaging (LA-ICP-MS) of zebrafish embryos to study the toxicokinetics of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor naled
Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 411 (3), 617 - 627 10.1007/s00216-018-1471-2
Švara, V., Norf, H., Luckenbach, T., Brack, W., Michalski, S.G. (2019):
Isolation and characterization of eleven novel microsatellite markers for fine-scale population genetic analyses of Gammarus pulex (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
Mol. Biol. Rep. 46 (6), 6609 - 6615 10.1007/s11033-019-05077-y

2018 (2)

Oetken, M., Jungmann, D., Bundschuh, M., Heß, M., Höss, S., Klein, R., Luckenbach, T., Osterauer, R., Peschke, K., Sosat, R. (2018):
Aquatische Wirbellose – inwiefern können sie als Wirkungsindikatoren für eine Gewässerbelastung dienen? Aquatic invertebrates - How can they serve as output indicators of water pollution?
Gefahrst. Reinhalt. Luft 78 (4), 171 - 172
Piotrowska, A., Syguda, A., Wyrwas, B., Chrzanowski, Ł., Luckenbach, T., Heipieper, H.J. (2018):
Effects of ammonium-based ionic liquids and 2,4-dichlorophenol on the phospholipid fatty acid composition of zebrafish embryos
PLOS One 13 (1), e0190779 10.1371/journal.pone.0190779

2017 (6)

Armitage, J.M., Erickson, R.J., Luckenbach, T., Ng, C.A., Prosser, R.S., Arnot, J.A., Schirmer, K., Nichols, J.W. (2017):
Assessing the bioaccumulation potential of ionizable organic compounds: Current knowledge and research priorities
Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 36 (4), 882 - 897 10.1002/etc.3680
Cunha, V., Burkhardt-Medicke, K., Wellner, P., Santos, M.M., Moradas-Ferreira, P., Luckenbach, T., Ferreira, M. (2017):
Effects of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) on multixenobiotic resistance (MXR) related efflux transporter activity in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos
Ecotox. Environ. Safe. 136 , 14 - 23 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2016.10.022
Escher, B.I., Hackermüller, J., Polte, T., Scholz, S., Aigner, A., Altenburger, R., Böhme, A., Bopp, S.K., Brack, W., Busch, W., Chadeau-Hyam, M., Covaci, A., Eisenträger, A., Galligan, J.J., Garcia-Reyero, N., Hartung, T., Hein, M., Herberth, G., Jahnke, A., Kleinjans, J., Klüver, N., Krauss, M., Lamoree, M., Lehmann, I., Luckenbach, T., Miller, G.W., Müller, A., Phillips, D.H., Reemtsma, T., Rolle-Kampczyk, U., Schüürmann, G., Schwikowski, B., Tan, Y.-M., Trump, S., Walter-Rohde, S., Wambaugh, J.F. (2017):
From the exposome to mechanistic understanding of chemical-induced adverse effects
Environ. Int. 99 , 97 - 106 10.1016/j.envint.2016.11.029
Jakob, L., Bedulina, D.S., Axenov-Gribanov, D.V., Ginzburg, M., Shatilina, Z.M., Lubyaga, Y.A., Madyarova, E.V., Gurkov, A.N., Timofeyev, M.A., Portner, H.-O., Sartoris, F.J., Altenburger, R., Luckenbach, T. (2017):
Uptake kinetics and subcellular compartmentalization explain lethal but not sublethal effects of cadmium in two closely related amphipod species
Environ. Sci. Technol. 51 (12), 7208 - 7218 10.1021/acs.est.6b06613
Kurth, D., Lips, S., Massei, R., Krauss, M., Luckenbach, T., Schulze, T., Brack, W. (2017):
The impact of chemosensitisation on bioaccumulation and sediment toxicity
Chemosphere 186 , 652 - 659 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.08.019
Luckenbach, T. (2017):
What are the global boundaries of chemical pollution? Каковы глобальные границы химического загрязнения?
Russian-German Scientific Summer School „Scientific collaboration – contribution to sustainable development“, October 16-22, 2016, Sochi. The Noosphere [Noosfera] N^o 1/2017
V.I. Vernadsky Nongovernmental Ecological Foundation ; Helmholtz Association of the German Scientific Centers, Moskau, Berlin, p. 59 - 63

2016 (5)

Axenov-Gribanov, D., Bedulina, D., Shatilina, Z., Jakob, L., Vereshchagina, K., Lubyaga, Y., Gurkov, A., Shchapova, E., Luckenbach, T., Lucassen, M., Sartoris, F.J., Pörtner, H.-O., Timofeyev, M. (2016):
Thermal preference ranges correlate with stable signals of universal stress markers in Lake Baikal endemic and Holarctic amphipods
PLOS One 11 (10), e0164226 10.1371/journal.pone.0164226
Faria, M., Pavlichenko, V.V., Burkhardt-Medicke, K., Soares, A.M.V.M., Altenburger, R., Barata, C., Luckenbach, T. (2016):
Corrigendum to "Use of a combined effect model approach for discriminating between ABCB1- and ABCC1-type efflux activities in native bivalve gill tissue" [Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. (2016) 56–67]
Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 303 , 110 10.1016/j.taap.2016.04.015
Faria, M., Pavlichenko, V.V., Burkhardt-Medicke, K., Soares, A.M.V.M., Altenburger, R., Barata, C., Luckenbach, T. (2016):
Use of a combined effect model approach for discriminating between ABCB1- and ABCC1-type efflux activities in native bivalve gill tissue
Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 297 , 56 - 67 10.1016/j.taap.2016.02.020
Jakob, L., Axenov-Gribanov, D.V., Gurkov, A.N., Ginzburg, M., Bedulina, D.S., Timofeyev, M.A., Luckenbach, T., Lucassen, M., Sartoris, F.J., Pörtner, H.-O. (2016):
Lake Baikal amphipods under climate change: thermal constraints and ecological consequences
Ecosphere 7 (3), e01308 10.1002/ecs2.1308
Keiter, S., Burkhardt-Medicke, K., Wellner, P., Kais, B., Färber, H., Skutlarek, D., Engwall, M., Braunbeck, T., Keiter, S.H., Luckenbach, T. (2016):
Does perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) act as chemosensitizer in zebrafish embryos?
Sci. Total Environ. 548–549 , 317 - 324 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.089

2015 (5)

Hachicho, N., Reithel, S., Miltner, A., Heipieper, H.J., Küster, E., Luckenbach, T. (2015):
Body mass parameters, lipid profiles and protein contents of zebrafish embryos and effects of 2,4-dinitrophenol exposure
PLOS One 10 (8), e0134755 10.1371/journal.pone.0134755
Kurth, D., Brack, W., Luckenbach, T. (2015):
Is chemosensitisation by environmental pollutants ecotoxicologically relevant?
Aquat. Toxicol. 167 , 134 - 140 10.1016/j.aquatox.2015.07.017
Luckenbach, T., Bedulina, D.S., Timofeyev, M. (2015):
Is the endemic fauna of Lake Baikal affected by global change?
In: Karthe, D., Chalov, S.R., Kasimov, N.S., Kappas, M. (eds.)
Water and environment in the Selenga-Baikal Basin. International research cooperation for an ecoregion of global relevance
Earth View - Geography and Geoinformation 23
Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart, p. 219 - 235
Luckenbach, T., Küster, E., Busch, W., Scholz, S., Altenburger, R. (2015):
What determines chemical uptake by the zebrafish embryo model?
Toxicol. Lett. 238 (2, Suppl.), S54 10.1016/j.toxlet.2015.08.151
Pavlichenko, V.V., Protopopova, M.V., Timofeyev, M., Luckenbach, T. (2015):
Identification of a putatively multixenobiotic resistance related Abcb1 transporter in amphipod species endemic to the highly pristine Lake Baikal
Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 22 (7), 5453 - 5468 10.1007/s11356-014-3758-y

2014 (5)

Bedulina, D.S., Takhteev, V.V., Pogrebnyak, S.G., Govorukhina, E.B., Madyarova, E.V., Lubyaga, Y.A., Vereshchagina, K.P., Timofeyev, M.A., Luckenbach, T. (2014):
On Eulimnogammarus messerschmidtii, sp. n. (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from Lake Baikal, Siberia, with redescription of E. cyanoides (Sowinsky) and remarks on taxonomy of the genus Eulimnogammarus
Zootaxa 3838 (5), 518 - 544 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.5.2
Campos, B., Altenburger, R., Gómez, C., Lacorte, S., Piña, B., Barata, C., Luckenbach, T. (2014):
First evidence for toxic defense based on the multixenobiotic resistance (MXR) mechanism in Daphnia magna
Aquat. Toxicol. 148 , 139 - 151 10.1016/j.aquatox.2014.01.001
Luckenbach, T., Fischer, S., Sturm, A. (2014):
Current advances on ABC drug transporters in fish
Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C-Toxicol. Pharmacol. 165 , 28 - 52 10.1016/j.cbpc.2014.05.002
Protopopova, M.V., Pavlichenko, V.V., Menzel, R., Putschew, A., Luckenbach, T., Steinberg, C.E.W. (2014):
Contrasting cellular stress responses of Baikalian and Palearctic amphipods upon exposure to humic substances: environmental implications
Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 21 (24), 14124 - 14137 10.1007/s11356-014-3323-8
Rivarola-Duarte, L., Otto, C., Jühling, F., Schreiber, S., Bedulina, D.S., Jakob, L., Gurkov, A., Axenov-Gribanov, D., Sahyoun, A.H., Lucassen, M., Hackermüller, J., Hoffmann, S., Sartoris, F., Pörtner, H.-O., Timofeyev, M., Luckenbach, T., Stadler, P.F. (2014):
A first glimpse at the genome of the Baikalian amphipod Eulimnogammarus verrucosus
J. Exp. Zool. Part B 322 (3), 177 - 189 10.1002/jez.b.22560

2013 (4)

Bedulina, D.S., Evgen'ev, M.B., Timofeyev, M.A., Protopopova, M.V., Garbuz, D.G., Pavlichenko, V.V., Luckenbach, T., Shatilina, Z.M., Axenov-Gribanov, D.V., Gurkov, A.N., Sokolova, I.M., Zatsepina, O.G. (2013):
Expression patterns and organization of the hsp70 genes correlate with thermotolerance in two congener endemic amphipod species (Eulimnogammarus cyaneus and E. verrucosus) from Lake Baikal
Mol. Ecol. 22 (5), 1416 - 1430 10.1111/mec.12136
Fischer, S., Klüver, N., Burkhardt-Medicke, K., Pietsch, M., Schmidt, A.-M., Wellner, P., Schirmer, K., Luckenbach, T. (2013):
Abcb4 acts as multixenobiotic transporter and active barrier against chemical uptake in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos
BMC Biol. 11 , art. 69 10.1186/1741-7007-11-69
Madyarova, E.V., Lubyaga, J.A., Gurkov, A.N., Vereshchagina, K.P., Kondrateva, E.M., Shchapova, E.P., Timofeyev, M.A., Luckenbach, T., Bedulina, D.S. (2013):
A comparative analysis of hsp70 mRNA and HSP70 protein expression in two distant populations of the Baikal amphipod Eulimnogammarus verrucosus (Gerstf., 1858)
Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry 9 (4), 345 - 351
Scholz, S., Sela, E., Blaha, L., Braunbeck, T., Galay-Burgos, M., García-Franco, M., Guinea, J., Klüver, N., Schirmer, K., Tanneberger, K., Tobor-Kapłon, M., Witters, H., Belanger, S., Benfenati, E., Creton, S., Cronin, M.T.D., Eggen, R.I.L., Embry, M., Ekman, D., Gourmelon, A., Halder, M., Hardy, B., Hartung, T., Hubesch, B., Jungmann, D., Lampi, M.A., Lee, L., Léonard, M., Küster, E., Lillicrap, A., Luckenbach, T., Murk, A.J., Navas, J.M., Peijnenburg, W., Repetto, G., Salinas, E., Schüürmann, G., Spielmann, H., Tollefsen, K.E., Walter-Rohde, S., Whale, G., Wheeler, J.R., Winter, M.J. (2013):
A European perspective on alternatives to animal testing for environmental hazard identification and risk assessment
Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 67 (3), 506 - 530 10.1016/j.yrtph.2013.10.003

2012 (1)

Navarro, A., Weißbach, S., Faria, M., Barata, C., Piña, B., Luckenbach, T. (2012):
Abcb and Abcc transporter homologs are expressed and active in larvae and adults of zebra mussel and induced by chemical stress
Aquat. Toxicol. 122–123 , 144 - 152 10.1016/j.aquatox.2012.06.008

2011 (2)

Faria, M., Navarro, A., Luckenbach, T., Piña, B., Barata, C. (2011):
Characterization of the multixenobiotic resistance (MXR) mechanism in embryos and larvae of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and studies on its role in tolerance to single and mixture combinations of toxicants
Aquat. Toxicol. 101 (1), 78 - 87 10.1016/j.aquatox.2010.09.004
Fischer, S., Loncar, J., Zaja, R., Schnell, S., Schirmer, K., Smital, T., Luckenbach, T. (2011):
Constitutive mRNA expression and protein activity levels of nine ABC efflux transporters in seven permanent cell lines derived from different tissues of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Aquat. Toxicol. 101 (2), 438 - 446 10.1016/j.aquatox.2010.11.010

2001 - 2010

1999 - 2000

1999 (1)

Luckenbach, T., Kilian, M., Triebskorn, R., Oberemm, A. (1999):
Fish early life stage tests as a tool to assess embryotoxic potentials in small streams
J. Aquat. Ecosys. Stress Recov. 8 (3-4), 355 - 370 10.1023/A:1012976809450

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