Withdrawn: F. Jin,M. Li,X. Li,Y. Zheng,K. Zhang,X Liu,B. Cai,G. Yin. PlncRNA-1 stimulates hair follicle stem cell differentiation in wound healing via the EZH2/ZEB1/MAPK1 axis,published in The Journal of Gene Medicine, 10.1002/jgm.3408

The above article, published online on 05 January 2022 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Gening Jiang, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed following no response from the author to requests to sign the Journal's publishing license.     

Withdrawn: Z. Cui,Q. Sun,W. Yan,Q. Han,G. Wang,Y. Hu. The role of miR-320a and its target gene GMEB1 in epithelial-mesenchymal transition and invasion of colorectal cancer,published in The Journal of Gene Medicine.

The above article, published online on 22 February 2021 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Gening Jiang, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed following no response from the author to requests to sign the Journal's publishing license.     

Retraction: Open and closed conformations reveal induced fit movements in butyrate kinase 2 activation. J. Diao,Y. D. Ma,and M. S. Hasson.

The following article from Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, “Open and closed conformations reveal induced fit movements in butyrate kinase 2 activation,” by Jiasheng Diao, Yunglin D. Ma, and Miriam S. Hasson, published online on 21 October 2010 in Wiley Online Library (onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Bertrand Garcia‐Moreno, and Wiley Periodicals. The retraction has been agreed because it was established by internal investigation performed by Purdue University that the authors of this article are not the owners of the data and have no right to publication.     

Withdrawn: X. Sun,J. Sun,D. Zhao,Y. Song,L. Yu. Phosphatase and actin regulator 1 rs9349379 polymorphism is associated with an elevated susceptibility to coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis,published in The Journal of Gene Medicine.

The above article, published online on 06 July 2019 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Gening Jiang, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed following no response from the author to requests to sign the Journal's publishing license.     

Withdrawn: X. Chen,Y. Li,M. Zhang,X. Wu,J. Zhu. Silencing LCK inactivates the NF-κB pathway to attenuate cartilage injury in osteoarthritis: An in vivo and in vitro study,published in The Journal of Gene Medicine.

The above article, published online on 10 August 2021 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Gening Jiang, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed following no response from the author to requests to sign the Journal's publishing license.     

Retraction: Citius,Altius, Fortius. J. Lange,G. Vriend. Proteins: Structure,Function, and Bioinformatics. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.12345

The above article, published online on 12 June 2020 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal's Editor-in-Chief Dr. Nikolay Dokholyan, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The above article is a humorous editorial contribution surrounding a specialized topic, and was not intended for full online publication as part of the journal's scholarly content. Due to an editorial mistake, the above article was published online in Early View. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. takes full responsibility for the erroneous publication of this article.     

Withdrawal: Booher,Adam & Kathryn Oths. The last bonesetter: An encounter with Don Felipe. DVD/PAL, 27 mins,colour. Watertown,Mass: DER, 2018. $295.00 (institutional use). Reviewed by Howard Reid

The above article from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, published online on 5 December 2022, in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editors in Chief, Hannah Knox, Adam Reed, Chika Watanabe, and Thomas Yarrow, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed due to a technical error at the publisher that caused the article to be mistakenly published online although its author has not signed the journal's publishing license.     

Withdrawal: Cai,H., Tao,X., Zheng,L., Huang,L., Peng,Y., Liao,R. and Zhu,Y. (2019), Ozone alleviates ischemia‐reperfusion injury by inhibiting mitochondrion‐mediated apoptosis pathway in SH‐SY5Y cells. Cell Biol Int. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbin.11087

The above article, published online on 20 December 2018 in Wiley Online Library ( https://doi.org/10.1002/cbin.11087 ), has been withdrawn by agreement with the journal Editor, Sergio Schenkman, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed because the authors have not provided a signed Copyright Transfer Agreement.     

Retraction: Fu,W., Wang,W., Wang,H., Zhu,X., Liang,Y., Kung,H. and Zhang,J. (2014), 1,3,5‐Trihydroxy‐13,13‐dimethyl‐2H‐pyran [7,6‐b] xanthone directly targets heat shock protein 27 in hepatocellular carcinoma. Cell Biol Int, 38: 272–276. doi:10.1002/cbin.10193

The above article from Cell Biology International, published online on 07 October 2013 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ) has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor‐in‐Chief and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to an error in the detection method used.     

Withdrawal: Cai,Z.,Wu,H., Xu,X. and Li,W. (2019),Down‐regulation of miR‐26 plays essential roles in TGFβ‐induced EMT. Cell Biol Int. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbin.11029

The above article, published online on 04 July 2018 in Wiley Online Library ( https://doi.org/10.1002/cbin.11029 ), has been withdrawn by agreement with the journal Editor, Sergio Schenkman, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed because the authors have not provided final corrections.     

Practical access to the proline analogs (S,S,S)- and (R,R,R)-2-methyloctahydroindole-2-carboxylic acids by HPLC enantioseparation

An efficient methodology for the preparation of the α‐tetrasubstituted proline analog (S,S,S)‐2‐methyloctahydroindole‐2‐carboxylic acid, (S,S,S)‐(αMe)Oic, and its enantiomer, (R,R,R)‐(αMe)Oic, has been developed. Starting from easily available substrates and through simple transformations, a racemic precursor has been synthesized in excellent yield and further subjected to HPLC resolution using a cellulose‐derived chiral stationary phase. Specifically, a semipreparative (250 mm × 20 mm ID) Chiralpak® IC column has allowed the efficient resolution of more than 4 g of racemate using a mixture of n‐hexane/tert‐butyl methyl ether/2‐propanol as the eluent. Multigram quantities of the target amino acids have been isolated in enantiomerically pure form and suitably protected for incorporation into peptides. Chirality, 2011. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

Erratum: Ochnaflavone inhibits TNF‐α‐induced human VSMC proliferation via regulation of cell cycle,ERK1/2, and MMP‐9. S.‐J. Suh,U.‐H. Jin,S.‐H. Kim,H.‐W. Chang,J.‐K. Son,S.H. Lee,K.‐H. Son,C.‐H. Kim

During the corresponding author's transfer from Dongguk University to Sungkyunkwan University in March 2006, data from the previous University was transferred to the corresponding author's new computer. During this data transfer there was a mixing of EMSA data from experiments involving Quercetin (QC), Ochnaflavone (OC), Tanshinone (TS), Crytotanshinone (CT), BMK, and natural extracts. The mixed EMSA data was inadvertently incorporated in more than one publication. Figure 6 has been corrected to new data with re‐confirmation. J. Cell. Biochem. 108: 337, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

6. Effect of OC on the TNF‐α‐induced DNA binding activities of MMP‐9, NF‐κB, and AP‐1 motif in HASMC. Cells were pretreated with indicated OC for 40 min in serum‐free medium, were incubated with TNF‐α (100 ng/ml) for 24 h. Nuclear extracts were analyzed by EMSA for the activated NF‐κB (A) and AP‐1 (B) using radiolabeled oligonucleotide probes, respectively. Indicated values are means of three triplicate experiments.     

Quarterly U.S. patent review: First quarter, 1999

The following are among the U.S. patents, issued in the first quarter of 1999, directed to combinatorial chemistry and related technologies. Patent issuances in the field are growing in number. Additionally, patents claiming libraries themselves, as opposed to synthetic methodologies, are becoming more common. It is impossible to be comprehensive. The author would be pleased to recognize additional patents and invites the use of his e‐mail address for this purpose. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng (Comb Chem) 61:189–190, 1998/1999.     

Retraction: SODD promotes glucose uptake of colorectal cancer cells via AKT pathway by Rui Zhang,Jibin Li,Xiaofei Yan,Keer Jin,Wenya Li,Jian Xu,Jian Zhao,Jinghui Bai,Xiaohui Su

The above article, published online on 31 October 2017 in Wiley Online Library ( https://doi.org/10.1002/cbin.10907 ), has been withdrawn by agreement with the journal Editor, Sergio Schenkman, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed because the authors have not provided a signed Copyright Transfer Agreement.     

Retraction: Zhong H,Lu L,Wang Y,Yang H. Single layer molybdenum disulfide as an optical nanoprobe for 2 photon luminescence and second harmonic generation cell imaging. J. Biophotonics. 2018;11:e201700354.

The above article from the Journal of Biophotonics, published online on 9 January 2018 in Wiley Online Library as Early View ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jbio.201700354 ), and in Volume 11, e201700354, has been retracted by agreement between the authors (Hong Zhong, Lin Lu, Yuanhao Wang, Hongxing Yang), Prof. Sailing He, Prof. Jurgen Popp (Editor‐in‐Chief) and Wiley‐VCH GmbH & Co. KGaA. The retraction has been agreed because the submitting author Hong Zhong failed to acknowledge the true authorship of the presented study which was originally conducted by a group led by Prof. Sailing He in South China Normal University, Guangzhou of China. REFERENCE Zhong H, Lu L, Wang Y, Yang H. Single layer molybdenum disulfide as an optical nanoprobe for 2 photon luminescence and second harmonic generation cell imaging. J. Biophotonics  2018 ;11:e201700354. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201700354     

Expression of Concern: Pari,L. and Rajarajeswari,N. (2011). Antioxidant role of coumarin on streptozotocin–nicotinamide‐induced type 2 diabetic rats. J. Biochem. Mol. Toxicol., 25: 355‐361. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbt.20395

This expression of concern is for the above article, published online on May 31, 2011, in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), and has been published by agreement between the journal Editor‐in‐Chief, Dr Hari K. Bhat, and Wiley Periodicals, LLC. This expression of concern has been issued following concerns raised regarding the appearance of Figure 4A and the narrow range of standard deviations presented in Tables 1 and 2. The authors and the authors' institution failed to respond to a request from the Publisher and the Editor‐in‐Chief to investigate whether the images and data arose from the originally reported experiments, are unmodified, and are suitable for publication. As a result, the journal is issuing this expression of concern to readers.     

Kang, M. S. Quantitative genetics, genomics and plant breeding

This comprehensive volume brings together the expertise of internationallyacclaimed experts in the areas of quantitative genetics, genomicsand bioinformatics, applied to improve crops’ performanceand to further our understanding of the intricacies of the genotypeby environment (G x E) interaction. The complexity of the subjectarea dealt with by the book has been masterfully dissected andskillfully presented in a number of revealing chapters, providingthe     

TRS-based PCR as a potential tool for inter-serovar discrimination of Salmonella Enteritidis,S. Typhimurium,S. Infantis,S. Virchow,S. Hadar,S. Newport and S. Anatum

Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica comprises a number of serovars, many of which pose an epidemiological threat to humans and are a worldwide cause of morbidity and mortality. Most reported food infection outbreaks involve the serovars Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium. Rapid identification to determine the primary sources of the bacterial contamination is important to the improvement of public health. In recent years, many DNA-based techniques have been applied to genotype Salmonella. Herein, we report the use of a manual TRS-PCR approach for the differentiation of the Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovars in a single-tube assay. One hundred seventy Salmonella strains were examined in this work. These consisted of serovars S. Enteritidis, S. Typhimurium, S. Infantis, S. Virchow, S. Hadar, S. Newport and S. Anatum. Five of the TRS-primers, N₆(GTG)₄, N₆(CAC)₄, N₆(CGG)₄, N₆(CCG)₄ and N₆(CTG)₄, perfectly distinguished the S. Enteritidis and S. Typhimurium serovars, and the N₆(GTG)₄ primer additionally grouped the other five frequently isolated serovars. In our opinion, the TRS-PCR methodology could be recommended for a quick and simple DNA-based test for inter-serovar discrimination of Salmonella strains.     

Interaction of ribosomal proteins S5, S6, S11, S12, S18 and S21 with 16 S rRNA

We have examined the effects of assembly of ribosomal proteins S5, S6, S11, S12, S18 and S21 on the reactivities of residues in 16 S rRNA towards chemical probes. The results show that S6, S18 and S11 interact with the 690-720 and 790 loop regions of 16 S rRNA in a highly co-operative manner, that is consistent with the previously defined assembly map relationships among these proteins. The results also indicate that these proteins, one of which (S18) has previously been implicated as a component of the ribosomal P-site, interact with residues near some of the recently defined P-site (class II tRNA protection) nucleotides in 16 S rRNA. In addition, assembly of protein S12 has been found to result in the protection of residues in both the 530 stem/loop and the 900 stem regions; the latter group is closely juxtaposed to a segment of 16 S rRNA recently shown to be protected from chemical probes by streptomycin. Interestingly, both S5 and S12 appear to protect, to differing degrees, a well-defined set of residues in the 900 stem/loop and 5'-terminal regions. These observations are discussed in terms of the effects of S5 and S12 on streptomycin binding, and in terms of the class III tRNA protection found in the 900 stem of 16 S rRNA. Altogether these results show that many of the small subunit proteins, which have previously been shown to be functionally important, appear to be associated with functionally implicated segments of 16 S rRNA.