Correction to “Astrakurkurone, a Sesquiterpenoid From Wild Edible Mushroom, Targets Liver Cancer Cells by Modulating Bcl-2 Family Proteins”

Abstract

Dasgupta A, Dey D, Ghosh D, Lai TK, Bhuvanesh N, Dolui S, Velayutham R, Acharya K. Astrakurkurone, a Sesquiterpenoid from wild edible mushroom, targets liver cancer cells by modulating Bcl-2 family proteins. IUBMB Life. 2019;71(7): 992–1002. https://doi.org/10.1002/iub.2047

An investigation based on concerns raised by a third party revealed the duplication of figure panels between Figure 3A and C, and high similarity between Figure 5B I Caspase 9 and GAPDH lanes, and 5B II Bax and Caspase 2 lanes. The authors admitted to the image compilation error in Figure 3 and were able to provide the original images of the article. The original images provided could not fully address the raised concerns, therefore the authors have repeated these experiments. The new experiments confirmed their earlier results, thus the corresponding conclusions of the paper remain unaffected. The new, corrected Figures 3 and 5 are shown as follows.