The journal has retracted J. Cell Sci. (2006) 119, 47–55 in agreement with the authors.
Journal of Cell Science was made aware of possible band duplications in blots in Fig. 1A, Fig. 2D, Fig. 3A,B, Fig. 4A,B and Fig. 6B,E of this paper. The journal requested more information to investigate these claims but the original data are no longer available.
The authors state: “Because the original data for this study could not be found, we do not have a definitive way to verify the authenticity of some data in the paper. Although the conclusions of the paper may be correct, we feel that the proper action is to retract this paper. We have contacted all authors except Jennifer Aurandt who could not be reached and all contacted authors agreed with this action.”
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