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>The authors and the journal hereby retract this article.
>After publication, this article was found to have multiple images that were unacceptably manipulated (Fig. 2 and 4B and C),
> a clear violation of ASM's ethical standards.
>Since the integrity of the data as presented was compromised,
> this publication is retracted in its entirety.
>We apologize to the readers of Molecular and Cellular Biology and regret any inconvenience this causes.
>H. Kitagawa did not agree to this retraction.