Editorial Expression of Concern to: Leukemia https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2015.180; Article published online 13 July 2015

The Editors-in-Chief are issuing an Editorial Expression of Concern to alert readers about the integrity of some images in this article. Specifically,

  • In Figure 1c the BTK and p-BTK (Y551) bands appear to be horizontally flipped with resizing.

  • In Figure 3a the BTK and P70S6K bands appear similar.

  • In Figure 3d the p-MNK (Thr197/202) and 4EBP1 bands appear to be horizontally flipped.

The authors state they no longer have access to the original data. Readers are thus advised to interpret findings in this article cautiously.

The following authors agree to this Editorial Expression of Concern: J. D. Griffin, E. L. Weisberg, W. Wang, Y. Chen, X. Wang, Q. Liu, J. Liu, C. Hu, M. J. Eck, F. Zou, B. Wang, Z. Qi, A. Wang, L. Wang, C.-H. Yun, H. Wu, C. Chen, Y. Liu, J. R. Brown and Y. Liang. The following authors have not responded to any correspondence from the Publisher about this Editorial Expression of Concern: J. Wang, X. Liu, B. Tian, Z. Zhao, B. Li, S. J. Buhrlage, S. M. Fernandes, Y. Li, I. A. Galinsky and A. Nonami, S. Adamia, G. Yang and N. S. Gray.

The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2015.180.