Correction to: Oncogene (2005) 24, 2574−2579. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1208488 Published online 14 February 2005

Since publication of the above manuscript, the authors have identified an error in the shared affiliation. The correct affiliation should be: ‘Department of Oncological Sciences, Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1130, New York, NY 10029, USA’.

The protein CDK1/Cdc2p34 was also referred incorrectly throughout the text as CDK2/Cdc2p34. The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience or confusion caused by this error.