In the paper ‘Twenty years of p53 research: structural and functional aspects of the p53 protein’ by P May and E May, Oncogene (1999) 18, 7621–7636, please note the following amendments.

Page 7626, column 1, line 23, section ‘Central region of p53’, ‘L3 packs against L1’ should have read ‘L3 packs against L2’.

Page 7628, column 2, line 6, section ‘p53-mediated apoptosis’, ‘SV40 large T‘ should have read ‘SV40 large T with a deleted p53 binding site’.

Page 7630, column 1, line 8, section ‘Phosphorylation and acetylation’, ‘These phosphorylation events effect’ should have read ‘These phosphorylation events affect’.

In the paper `Co-amplification and overexpression of CDK4, SAS and MDM2 occurs frequently in human parosteal osteosarcomas' by JS Wunder et al., Oncogene, 1999, 18, 783–788 the fourth co-author's name is incorrectly spelt. The correct spelling is Nalan Gokgoz.