On 01 April 2009, NAR published the article ‘CK1δ modulates the transcriptional activity of ERα via AIB1 in an estrogen-dependent manner and regulates ERα–AIB1 interactions’ by Georgios Giamas, Leandro Castellano, Qin Feng, Uwe Knippschild, Jimmy Jacob, Ross S. Thomas, R. Charles Coombes, Carolyn L. Smith, Long R. Jiao, and Justin Stebbing (1).
Following comments published on PubPeer, the Editors were first alerted by the Authors in 2017, and more recently by a Reader, that the blots depicted in several figures show unusual levels of similarity.
Details have been published in PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/publications/1CCAC58543784D1B17C8416A6D97C2
The Authors have not been able to provide the original data. Therefore, following COPE guidelines, we are referring this to the Authors’ institution. The Editors advise Readers to examine the details of this study with particular care.
Keith R. Fox, Barry L. Stoddard
Senior Executive Editors
REFERENCES
- 1. Giamas G., Castellano L., Feng Q., Knippschild U., Jacob J., Thomas R.S., Coombes R.C., Smith C.L., Jiao L.R., Stebbing J.. CK1delta modulates the transcriptional activity of ERalpha via AIB1 in an estrogen-dependent manner and regulates ERalpha-AIB1 interactions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009; 37:3110–3123. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Retracted]