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closePublisher's Note: Error in Results and missing references
Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 23 Sep 2010 at 22:38 GMT
Taphrinomycotina
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010899#article1.body1.sec3.sec5.sec1.p1
The information in the "Taphrinomycotina" section of the Results was incomplete as published, and three references were missing. The section should read:
Taphrinomycotina
This ascomycete subphylum is varied in many of its morphological and biochemical characters, including the production of major sterols. Although Pneumocystis carinii and related species synthesize a variety of ∆7 and ∆8 24-alkylsterols, the cholesterol in their membranes is scavenged from the mammalian hosts [37]. A broad sampling of species of Taphrina and Protomyces have 24-methyl-cholesta-5,22-dienol (brassicasterol) as their primary sterol [38]. Schizosaccharomyces pombe and S. octosporus produce ergosterol [39] (Figure 2; Table S1).
The references should be:
37. Amit Z, Kaneshiro ES(2001) Heterogeneity of Pneumocystis sterol profiles of samples from different sites in the same pair of lungs suggests coinfection by distinct orgamism populations. J Clin Microbiol 39: 1137-1139.
38. van Eijk GW, Roeymans HJ (1982) Distribution of carotenoids and sterols in relation to the taxonomy of Taphrina and Protomyces. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 48: 257-264.
39. Iwaki T, Iefuji H, Hiraga Y, Hosomi A, Morita T, et al. (2008) Multiple functions of ergosterol in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Microbiology 154: 830-841.