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Authors reveal mischaracterization of human calpain-3 protein in a purified sample, implicating contamination.
The authors have withdrawn this article. The authors determined that the multimer that was purified and partially characterized by cryo-electron microscopy was not recombinant human calpain-3, but instead an E. coli protein contaminant, the bifunctional polymyxin resistance protein ArnA. This enzyme has internal histidine residues that likely enabled it to accumulate during Ni-Agarose affinity chromatography. To confirm this result, mass spectrometry sequencing was applied to the cryo-EM sample in question, which was found to be almost entirely ArnA.
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