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. 2020 Oct 2;295(40):13957. doi: 10.1074/jbc.W120.015902

Withdrawal: Phosphorylation drives an apoptotic protein to activate antiapoptotic genes: Paradigm of influenza A matrix 1 protein function.

Umesh Chandra Halder, Rahul Bhowmick, Tapasi Roy Mukherjee, Mukti Kant Nayak, Mamta Chawla-Sarkar
PMCID: PMC7535903  PMID: 33008954

VOLUME 288 (2013) PAGES 14554–14568

This article has been withdrawn by the authors. The Journal determined that there are repetitive features present in the background area of the RelB blot in Fig. 2D and the Daxx immunoblot in Fig. 7G. There is an image irregularity in the IgG immunoblot from Fig. 4B; however the authors disagree with the Journal's claim. The authors state that they provided uncropped scans of the autoradiograms from the corresponding and/or replicate experiments done at same time of the original experiments. The authors state that due to the tropical climate, the quality of the autoradiograms may have partially deteriorated as the work was done more than 9 years ago, but still they could not visualize any repetitive elements in the background. The authors state that all available hard copy autoradiograms present in the laboratory records were reviewed and verified favorably by the institutional review committee and a third-party forensic laboratory. The authors state that they had provided the cropped tiff files from the final assembled figures used during manuscript submission as well as figures downloaded from the JBC website to the forensic laboratory. Copies of both of the reports were shared with the Journal. However, the Journal did not agree as the authors failed to comply with the Journal's policy of providing uncropped raw scans used to prepare the corresponding images in the manuscript. The authors affirm that all of the experiments were performed appropriately, and the concerns raised do not affect the accuracy of the results or the conclusions of the scientific work. However, in the interest of maintaining the accuracy in the published scientific literature, the authors wish to withdraw this article but plan to publish a new version of the article corroborating the findings of this work in the future.


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