Researchers are exploring whether these ubiquitous fluorinated molecules might worsen infections or hamper vaccine effectiveness.
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Contributed by Brian J. Staskawicz, December 13, 2016 (sent for review November 23, 2016; reviewed by Sheng Yang He and Bing Yang)
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- aDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3120;
- bDepartment of General Genetics, Center of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany
Contributed by Brian J. Staskawicz, December 13, 2016 (sent for review November 23, 2016; reviewed by Sheng Yang He and Bing Yang)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: stask{at}berkeley.edu.
Author contributions: A.R.S. and B.J.S. designed research; A.R.S. performed research; R.M. and T.L. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; A.R.S. analyzed data; and A.R.S. wrote the paper.
Reviewers: S.Y.H., Michigan State University; and B.Y., Iowa State University.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1620407114/-/DCSupplemental.
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