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The authors wish to retract this Letter after the report of an inability to reproduce their results1, later confirmed by another2. The studies the authors then conducted led to an internal investigation by University College London, please see the accompanying Supplementary Information for details. The retraction has not been signed by Jatinder Ahluwalia.
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Ahluwalia, J., Tinker, A., Clapp, L. et al. Retraction Note: The large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel is essential for innate immunity. Nature 468, 122 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09562
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