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. 2019 Apr 4;116(8):1575–1576. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.03.031

Sphingomyelin Stereoisomers Reveal That Homophilic Interactions Cause Nanodomain Formation

Yo Yano, Shinya Hanashima, Tomokazu Yasuda, Hiroshi Tsuchikawa, Nobuaki Matsumori, Masanao Kinoshita, Md Abdullah Al Sazzad, J Peter Slotte , Michio Murata ∗∗
PMCID: PMC6486535  PMID: 30955848

(Biophysical Journal 115, 1530–1540; October 16, 2018)

The structure of threo-SSMs 5 and 6 in Figure 1 was mistakenly drawn for the configuration of a 2-NH group, where a C-N bound should have been drawn with a bold line as shown below.

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Chemical structures of sphingomyelin (D-erythro-SSM, SSM), SSM enantiomer (L-erythro-SSM, ent-SSM), SSM diastereomer (L-threo-SSM, threo-SSM), and their deuterated analogs. (Corrected)

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Figure 1 Chemical structures of sphingomyelin (D-erythro-SSM, SSM), SSM enantiomer (L-erythro-SSM, ent-SSM), SSM diastereomer (L-threo-SSM, threo-SSM), and their deuterated analogs. (Original)

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