In the original article, in the Introduction, paragraph four, we referenced previous work on ancestral reconstruction. We would like to add a further sentence and three additional citations for the work that first demonstrated the resurrection of ancient genes into contemporary hosts to form ancient modern hybrids and examine function in vivo:
It is possible to then resurrect the ancestral proteins corresponding to these inferred sequences and characterize their in vitro biological and biochemical properties (Gaucher et al., 2003; Thornton et al., 2003). Furthermore, ancient proteins can be expressed in contemporary hosts to examine the function of ancient proteins in vivo, and their integration and subsequent adaptation in ancient-modern hybrids (Kaçar and Gaucher, 2012; Kacar et al., 2017a,b).
Whilst our work does not explore subsequent adaptation of these ancient-modern hybrids, citation of these references is appropriate to give appropriate credit and to guide the reader to consider the research in ancestral reconstruction that has enabled our work.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Summary
Keywords
motility, flagellar and chemotaxis, stator, ancestral sequence reconstruction, ion-selectivity
Citation
Islam MI, Lin A, Lai Y-W, Matzke NJ and Baker MAB (2021) Corrigendum: Ancestral Sequence Reconstructions of MotB Are Proton-Motile and Require MotA for Motility. Front. Microbiol. 12:650373. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.650373
Received
07 January 2021
Accepted
11 February 2021
Published
19 March 2021
Volume
12 - 2021
Edited and reviewed by
Masahiro Ito, Toyo University, Japan
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*Correspondence: Matthew A. B. Baker matthew.baker@unsw.edu.au
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