AUTHOR CORRECTION
Volume 87, no. 4, p. 2352–2357, 2013, https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.02701-12. Page 2353, Fig. 1: Both the left and right panels of this figure came from a cotransfection experiment between a replication construct of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome with an ablated envelope gene (N60) and an expression construct for wild-type (WT) or mutant envelope proteins. The replication construct with no ablation of the envelope gene (N16) and an empty vector served as positive and negative controls, respectively. The protein and DNA samples were analyzed in two separate gels under identical conditions, with N16, empty vector, and WT present in both gels. Panel D was added at the revision stage due to a reviewer's request. The WT lane in the right panel of panel D was duplicated from the WT lane in the left panel due to sample loss. Although the two WT lanes showed comparable values in other parameters analyzed (panels A, B, C, and E), we removed the WT lanes in the right panels.
Figure 1 should appear as shown below.
The slight change to the figure does not alter any of the conclusions regarding the biological properties of the immune escape mutants studied.
Page 2355, Fig. 4: The two lanes containing WT and vector samples in the right panel of panel A were at the right end of the original Southern blot. They were flipped and moved to the left side of the right panel so as to display in the same order as those in the left panel. In the right panels of panels E and F, the original Western blots had a lane of prestained molecular size markers separating the vector and WT samples from the other samples. That marker lane was cropped off during figure assembly for proper alignment with the panels above.
The joining of different parts of the same blots for the right panels of Fig. 4A, E, and F did not distort the signal or intensity in any way.