The authors for the paper ‘Escherichia coli HU protein has a role in the repair of abasic sites in DNA’, wish to withdraw it from publication.
The figures used in the paper were created solely in the laboratory of Yoke W. Kow, the corresponding author, and without the knowledge of any of the other authors. It must also be noted that Antreas A. Hindoyan and Randall M. Story did not approve the manuscript prior to submission, and have requested that their names be removed from the list of authors.
The paper has been published in Nucleic Acids Research 2007, Vol. 35, No. 19.
The authors hereby retract this paper and discourage citations of it.