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Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2018 Mar 22;173(1):275. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.024

The Neuronal Gene Arc Encodes a Repurposed Retrotransposon Gag Protein that Mediates Intercellular RNA Transfer

Elissa D Pastuzyn, Cameron E Day, Rachel B Kearns, Madeleine Kyrke-Smith, Andrew V Taibi, John McCormick, Nathan Yoder, David M Belnap, Simon Erlendsson, Dustin R Morado, John AG Briggs, Cédric Feschotte, Jason D Shepherd *
PMCID: PMC5923900  NIHMSID: NIHMS951243  PMID: 29570995

(Cell 172, 275–288; January 11, 2018)

We inadvertently missed citing two relevant papers in the Introduction and Results sections of our paper. Our study is complementary to Ashley et al. (2018), published in the same issue of Cell, in showing the homology between Arc and Gag proteins and revealing a new signaling pathway in neurons. We have added a citation to this paper in the Introduction. In addition, Abrusán et al. (2013) had previously suggested the divergence of fly and tetrapod Arc, and we now mention this paper in the section of the Results with the heading “Fly and Tetrapod Arc Genes Independently Originated from Distinct Lineages of Ty3/gypsy Retrotransposons.” The article has been corrected online to include these references. We apologize for these omissions.

References

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