International Journal of PeptidesVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 613053, 2 pagesdoi:10.1155/2012/613053

Erratum

Erratum to “Characterization of Selective Antibacterial Peptides by Polarity Index”

C. Polanco,1,2 J. L. Samaniego,³ T. Buhse,¹ F. G. Mosqueira,⁴ A. Negron-Mendoza,⁵ S. Ramos-Bernal,⁵ and J. A. Castanon-Gonzalez²

¹Centro de Investigaciones Químicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Avenida Universidad 1001, 62209 Cuernavaca, MOR, Mexico²Subdireccion de Epidemiologia Hospitalaria y Control de Calidad de la Atencion Medica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Vasco de Quiroga 15, Piso 4, Colonia Seccion XVI, 14000 Mexico City, DF, Mexico³Departamento de Matematicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City, DF, Mexico⁴Direccion General de Divulgacion de la Ciencia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria, A.P. 70-487, 04510 Mexico City, DF, Mexico⁵Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, A.P. 70-543, 04510 Mexico City, DF, Mexico

Received 6 December 2012; Accepted 10 December 2012

Copyright © 2012 C. Polanco et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

When I was using the Polarity-Index method a few days ago, I noticed differences in Table 3, as published.

However, it should be as in Table 3.

Table 3: Number of matches in a typical SCAAP sequence in each peptide database with single or multiple action on fungi, viruses, mammalian cells, Gram+/Gram− bacteria, cancer cells, insects, parasites, and sperms (see also Section 2.6) [7].

Total
Action
Fungi
Viruses
Mammalian cells
Bacteria
Cancer cells
Insects
Parasites
Sperms

879
Unique
0/77
0/22
0/10
62/743
1/16
0/2
0/9
0/0

2644
Multiple
72/638
6/122
33/205
152/1489
11/121
6/20
5/40
1/9

These changes do not affect neither the efficiency of the method nor any section of the paper.

I also noted the difficulty to compare information on the same APD2 database (November 2011), as it changes weekly. Therefore I am sending a file to support that test, in case the journal has backup for additional information. Otherwise I will to keep this information for three years.