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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.</journal-id>
<journal-title>Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology</journal-title>
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<article-title>Retraction: The two-component system CpxRA negatively regulates the locus of enterocyte effacement of enterohemorrhagic <italic>Escherichia coli</italic> involving &#x3c3;<sup>32</sup> and Lon protease</article-title>
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<p>*Correspondence: Frontiers Editorial Office, <email xlink:href="mailto:research.integrity@frontiersin.org">research.integrity@frontiersin.org</email>
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<related-article id="RA1" related-article-type="retracted-article" journal-id="Front Cell Infect Microbiol" journal-id-type="nlm-ta" xlink:href="10.3389/fcimb.2016.00011" ext-link-type="doi">A Retraction of the Original Research Article <article-title>The two-component system CpxRA negatively regulates the locus of enterocyte effacement of enterohemorrhagic <italic>Escherichia coli</italic> involving &#x3c3;<sup>32</sup> and Lon protease</article-title> By De la Cruz MA, Morgan JK, Ares MA, Y&#xe1;&#xf1;ez-Santos JA, Riordan JT and Gir&#xf3;n JA (2016). <italic>Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol</italic>. 6:11. doi:&#xa0; <object-id>10.3389/fcimb.2016.00011</object-id>
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<p>The journal retracts the 05 February 2016 article cited above.</p>
<p>Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the integrity of the images in the published figures. Image duplication concerns were identified within Figure&#xa0;1 and Figure&#xa0;3. The authors failed to provide a satisfactory explanation during the investigation, which was conducted in accordance with Frontiers&#x2019; policies.</p>
<p>This retraction was approved by the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. The authors received a communication regarding the retraction and had a chance to respond. This communication has been recorded by the publisher.</p>
<p>Frontiers would like to thank the users on PubPeer for bringing the published article to our attention.</p>
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