Author Correction: Smooth muscle protein 22α-Cre recombination in resting cardiac fibroblasts and hematopoietic precursors

Correction to: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-022-15957-2, published online 07 July 2022

The original version of this Article contained an error in TGF-β units in Figure 4 (d)-(g) labels, where

“μg/ml”

now reads:

“ng/ml”

The original Figure 4 and accompanying legend appear below.

Figure 4.

SM22α-Cre recombination in vitro. (a) A representative bright field image of cultured fibroblasts. (b) GFP expression in fibroblasts in vitro. (c) GFP expression in fibroblasts in vitro (n = 3) and in vivo (n = 5). *p value < 0.01, evaluated by Student’s t test. (d) GFP expression in BMDMs with TGF-β stimulation. (e) No additional SM22α-Cre recombination in BMDMs with TGF-β stimulation, which increases SM22α expression. (f) GFP expression in bone marrow-derived cells with TGF-β stimulation. (g) No additional SM22α-Cre recombination in bone marrow-derived cells during differentiation from phenotypically defined putative HSCs to macrophages with TGF-β stimulation.

Additionally, the same error occurred in Supplementary Information Figure 2.

Lastly, the article omitted to mention that BMDMs were cultured under serum-free media. Consequently, in Materials and methods, under the subheading ‘Preparation of cells’,

now reads:

"For RNA analysis, cells were cultured under serum-free media (RPMI +1% Bovine serum albumin) (Merck, #A9418) during stimulation.”

The original Article and Supplementary Information file have been corrected.