In the original published version of this article, there was a mistake made in an amino acid description in the Discussion section. Marburg virus Guinea encodes an aspartate (D) residue at amino acid position 56, not an arginine (R) residue. In the original version, this amino acid description is written as R56N:
“Despite having a similar theoretical molecular weight, VP40 from MARV Guinea migrated significantly higher than VP40 from MARV Musoke or Leiden in a SDS-PAGE. Comparing the amino acid sequences of recMARV Guinea with MARV Musoke and Leiden (both 303 aa in total), revealed only two amino acid changes, M44V and R56N. Whether these amino acid changes contribute to an altered or modified post-translational modification is currently under investigation.”
The corrected version of this amino acid description (D56N) can be found below:
“Despite having a similar theoretical molecular weight, VP40 from MARV Guinea migrated significantly higher than VP40 from MARV Musoke or Leiden in a SDS-PAGE. Comparing the amino acid sequences of recMARV Guinea with MARV Musoke and Leiden (both 303 aa in total), revealed only two amino acid changes, M44V and D56N. Whether these amino acid changes contribute to an altered or modified post-translational modification is currently under investigation.”
The authors apologize for the errors. Both the HTML and PDF versions of the article have been updated to correct the errors.
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