Correction: Corrigendum: Mitochondrial Atpif1 regulates haem synthesis in developing erythroblasts

Nature 491, 608–612 (2012); doi:10.1038/nature11536

On page 610 of this Letter, the overview comments concerning the action of ATP synthase should read: “Under physiological conditions, the F₁F₀-ATP synthase generates ATP by consuming the proton motive force existing across the inner mitochondrial membrane, transporting H⁺ ions from the intermembrane space into the mitochondrial matrix^8,15. When respiration is inhibited or the mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) is decreased, the F₁F₀-ATP synthase reverses the direction of H⁺ transport, dissipating ATP in the attempt to maintain the proton motive force^8,15. Under these conditions, Atpif1 inhibits the reversal of the F₁F₀-ATP synthase to decrease ATP hydrolysis, thereby counteracting the maintenance of the mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) and proton motive force⁸”. This rewording has no effect on the data, the scientific interpretation and the resulting model presented, and has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the original paper.