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Acknowledgements We thank J. Zhou, I. Miguel-Aliaga, C. Thummel, P. Patel and L. O’Brien
for stocks and discussions. We thank O. Salem of McMaster Immunology Research Centre for
Fig. 3i and M. AbdelMoety of American University of the Middle East for the chemical structure
in Fig. 3i. This work was supported by ERC AdG 268515, DFG SFB873 and NIH GM124434 to
B.A.E., and by the Helmholtz Zukunftsthema ‘Aging and Metabolic Programming’ (AMPro)
to A.A.T.Author contributions S.M.H.A. performed and analysed all experiments except Extended Data
Figs. 8m, 9a–d (G.O.P.-S.) and Extended Data Fig. 6a, e–q (C.P.). J.A.M. contributed to Extended
Data Fig. 8a, n and Fig 2o. The conception and design of experiments was by S.M.H.A., B.A.E.,
J.A.M. and A.A.T. Image-processing methods were designed by D.K. S.M.H.A., A.A.T. and B.A.E.
wrote the manuscript.
Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests.Additional information
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