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Edited by Louis M. Kunkel, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and approved June 24, 2019 (received for review January 11, 2019)
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- Julien Deleziea,
- Martin Weihraucha,
- Geraldine Maiera,
- Rocío Tejerob,
- Daniel J. Hama,
- Jonathan F. Gilla,
- Bettina Karrer-Cardela,
- Markus A. Rüegga,
- Lucía Tabaresb, and
- Christoph Handschina,1
- aBiozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland;
- bDepartment of Medical Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Seville, 41009 Seville, Spain
Edited by Louis M. Kunkel, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and approved June 24, 2019 (received for review January 11, 2019)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: christoph.handschin{at}unibas.ch.
Author contributions: J.D. and C.H. designed research; J.D., M.W., G.M., R.T., D.J.H., J.F.G., and B.K.-C. performed research; M.A.R. and L.T. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; J.D., R.T., and D.J.H. analyzed data; and J.D. and C.H. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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