Mycolactone cytotoxicity in Schwann cells could explain nerve damage in Buruli ulcer

• Junichiro En ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jun-e@m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, National Sanatorium Hoshizuka-Keiaien, Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan, International University of Health and Welfare, Narita, Chiba, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1379-5485

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• Sho Kitamoto,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Akira Kawashima,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Medical Technology, Teikyo University, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan

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• Suguru Yonezawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

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• Yoshito Kishi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Norihisa Ishii,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masamichi Goto

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, National Sanatorium Hoshizuka-Keiaien, Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan

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