Response to a Letter to the Editor from Rodgers regarding “Overexpression of Myostatin2 in zebrafish reduces the expression of dystrophin associated protein complex (DAPC) which leads to muscle dystrophy (original) (raw)

2008, Journal of Biomedical Science

We appreciate being made aware of earlier published work on the cloning of zebrafish myostatin 2 (MSTN-2), nomenclature of MSTN family. In the published version of this article, we reported one zebrafish MSTN-2 cDNA (GenBank accession number: AY614000), which is different from two published zebrafish MSTN-2 according to comparison of nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences . However, two previous published articles which identified zebrafish MSTN-2 cDNA (Gen-Bank accession number: AY687474) [1] and gene (GenBank accession number: AY693972) [2] was not referenced in this article. We apologize for neglecting pertinent references. According to new nomenclature of myostatin family [3], we construct new phylogenetic tree including three zebrafish MSTN-2 to replace old Fig. 3. References 1. Kerr T, Roalson EH, Rodgers BD (2005) Phylogenetic analysis of the myostatin gene sub-family and the differential expression of a novel member in zebrafish. Evol Dev 7(5):390-400 2. Biga PR, Roberts SB, Iliev DB, McCauley LA, Moon JS, Collodi P, Goetz FW (2005) The isolation, characterization, and expression of a novel GDF11 gene and a second myostatin form in zebrafish, Danio rerio. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 141(2):218-230 3. Rodgers BD, Roalson EH, Weber GM, Roberts SB, Goetz FW (2007) A proposed nomenclature consensus for the myostatin gene family. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 292(2):