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Virulence caught green-handed

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Many of us eat mushrooms, but few of us have probably ever thought about — let alone witnessed — the epic battle of kingdoms that can occur between this delicacy and its bacterial pathogens. Now, imaging mass spectrometry has enabled the identification of a bacterium's potent antifungal weapon of choice.

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Figure 1: A schematic showing the procedure for identifying jagaricin using imaging mass spectrometry.

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  1. Departments of Pharmacology, Laura M. Sanchez and Pieter C. Dorrestein are in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA,

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