Correction to: Oncogene https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1205348, published online 16 April 2002

This correction serves to address concerns raised by readers regarding the Western blot bands in Figs. 2B and 4B of this article [1], which were purported to be highly similar and contain vertical splice marks between samples.

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    We would like to clarify that the samples shown in Figs. 2B and 4B were run together on the same gel, and the treatment groups were split up into two images, using the same untreated controls. The splicing of gel bands to generate the composite figures and the use of common control bands were not described in the original publication as this was not a common policy at the time of publication. For reference, we show below the unprocessed data from which 4 of the 6 treatment groups were separated and presented in the manuscript (underlined with red arrows).

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    JNK1+/− and JNK2+/+ cells were interchangeably used as “Wild-type” controls in Figs. 2B and 4B. It is more appropriate to refer to these samples as “Controls” to reflect the difference in genotype.

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    During the re-analysis of our original and published data, we noticed that the Actin Western blot of JNK2 cells was inadvertently used as a loading control for both JNK1 and JNK2 cells in Figs. 2B and 4B. The two unprocessed Actin Western blots corresponding to JNK1 and JNK2 cells are shown below, along with the erroneously duplicated Actin Western blot of Figs. 2B and 4B.

These corrections do not change any of the conclusions of our manuscript.