Retraction

Retraction: Francis Domain, Xiaowen R. Bina and Stuart B. Levy, “Transketolase A, an enzyme in central metabolism, derepresses the marRAB multiple antibiotic resistance operon of Escherichia coli by interaction with MarR”, Molecular Microbiology 2007, 66(2), 383‐393 ( https://doi/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05928.x ). The above article, published online on 14 September 2007 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief John Helmann, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed because additional work in the authors' laboratory (L.M. McMurry) failed to confirm that the tktA gene overexpressed from pSPOK–TktA enhanced the expression in vivo of the mar promoter fusion marO–lacZ , or that deletion of chromosomal