Corrigendum to: ‘‘Salbutamol inhibits ubiquitin-mediated survival motor neuron protein degradation in spinal muscular atrophy cells’’ [Biochem. Biophys. Rep. 4 (2015) 351–356]

The authors regret that a phrase, “of exon 7”, was mistakenly omitted from the second paragraph of the Introduction section.

The second paragraph should be as follows: “The survival motor neuron genes SMN1 (telomeric SMN) and SMN2 (centromeric SMN) have been identified as candidate SMA-causing genes at chromosome 5q11.2–13.3 [2]. SMN1 and SMN2 are largely identical, but nucleotide +6 of exon 7 in the coding region is a C in SMN1 and a T in SMN2, though these are synonymous and do not result in an amino acid change. However, SMN1, but not SMN2, is now recognized as an SMA-causing gene, because SMN1 is completely deleted in more than 90% of SMA patients [3] and deleteriously mutated in the remaining patients [4].”

The correction above does not affect the results and conclusions of the paper.

The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.