Neuroscience
Retraction of “Neurexin-2 restricts synapse numbers and restrains the presynaptic release probability by an alternative splicing-dependent mechanism,” by Pei-Yi Lin, Lulu Y. Chen, Peng Zhou, Sung-Jin Lee, Justin H. Trotter, and Thomas C. Südhof, which was first published March 24, 2023; 10.1073/pnas.2300363120 (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 120, e2300363120).
The authors note, “We wish to retract the paper because re-analysis of the original raw data for Figs. 2, 4, and 6 (https://purl.stanford.edu/cp231wr9194) revealed that, although our analyses of the original data are supportive of the conclusions of the paper, unresolvable differences exist between these raw data and the published data source file that cannot be corrected by a simple erratum. In addition, the data source file contained copy-paste errors, and Fig. 1 included shifted data points that occurred during figure drafting. We thank Dr. Daniel Matus of Stanford University for his independent analysis of the primary raw data.”