The authors of “Interactions between Syntaxins Identify at Least Five SNARE Complexes within the Golgi/Prevacuolar System of the Arabidopsis Cell” (Mol. Biol. Cell [2001] 12, 3733–3743; 10.1091/mbc.12.12.3733) wish to note errors in their paper.
Several mistakes in the assembly of Figure 4 resulted in the duplication of bands that were actually from Figure 5. Unfortunately, due to the length of time since publication, retirement of the corresponding author and one other author (N.V.R. and V.K.) and all of the authors no longer at the site of the work since the time of publication, the primary data are no longer available to support correction of the figure.
The authors stand by the conclusions of the paper and note that multiple other independent labs have since confirmed their findings using independent reagents or mass spectroscopy (Yano et al., 2003; Niiharma et al., 2005; Ebine et al., 2008; Kato et al., 2010; El Kasmi et al., 2013; Fujiwara et al., 2014; Takemoto et al., 2018). The authors regret the errors and apologize to the community.
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