RETRACTION
Volume 186, no. 14, pages 4813–4817, 2004.
This article has been retracted at the request of the Journal of Bacteriology because identical bands for the 16S rRNA probe controls in the Northern blots were reported to correspond to experiments using different strains and experimental conditions in articles published in this journal and in Microbiology over a period of 5 years, i.e., the following:
C. Barreiro, E. González-Lavado, M. Pátek, and J.-F. Martín, J. Bacteriol. 186:4813–4817, 2004. doi:10.1128/JB.186.14.4813–4817.2004.
C. Barreiro, E. González-Lavado, S. Brand, A. Tauch, and J. F. Martín, J. Bacteriol. 187:884–889, 2005. doi:10.1128/JB.187.3.884–889.2005.
M. Barriuso-Iglesias, C. Barreiro, F. Flechoso, and J. F. Martín, Microbiology 152:11–21, 2006. doi:10.1099/mic.0.28383-0.
C. Barreiro, D. Nakunst, A. T. Hüser, H. D. de Paz, J. Kalinowski, and J. F. Martín, Microbiology 155:359–372, 2009. doi:10.1099/mic.0.019299-0.
Drs. Barreiro and Martín take sole responsibility for these instances of data duplication and would like to apologize to the readers, reviewers, and editors of both the Journal of Bacteriology and Microbiology.