PLOS One published a correction regarding author affiliations for the article titled GDF15 participates in epithelial cell senescence in radiation-induced lung injury through the ERK1/2-p16 signaling pathway. The notice reports that there were errors in the affiliations as originally listed and provides the corrected affiliations associated with each author. The correction itself does not indicate any change to the study’s data, methods, results, or conclusions.
The corrected author line and institutional affiliations are as follows:
Affiliations:
Jing Liu is listed with dual affiliations (1 and 2). All other authors (Dongyang Lv, Hengjiao Wang, Defu Yang, Ying Xu, Ying Yan) are affiliated with the Department of Radiation Oncology, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, China.
The correction notice was published on August 17, 2026. It is assigned DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0356407. The formal citation provided in the notice is:
Liu J, Lv D, Wang H, Yang D, Xu Y, Yan Y (2026) Correction: GDF15 participates in epithelial cell senescence in radiation-induced lung injury through the ERK1/2-p16 signaling pathway. PLoS One 21(8): e0356407. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0356407
The correction also references the original article that it pertains to: Liu J, Lv D, Wang H, Yang D, Xu Y, Yan Y. GDF15 participates in epithelial cell senescence in radiation-induced lung injury through the ERK1/2-p16 signaling pathway. PLoS One. 2026;21(6):e0350042. The notice includes the original article’s DOI link to the article page.
The correction is explicitly described as pertaining to the original PLOS One research article on GDF15, epithelial cell senescence, and radiation-induced lung injury with the ERK1/2-p16 signaling pathway cited in the title. The correction lists the reference to the original paper, and it provides the PubMed identifier (pmid:42263110) in the reference block. The correction itself corrects only author affiliation metadata; there is no statement in the correction indicating alterations to the article’s scientific content.
Links provided in the notice point to the original article page, the original article PDF, and the DOI landing pages for both the correction and the original article. The correction appears as a separate entry in the journal’s record and is linked from the original article as the related correction.
The correction notice indicates that the item is open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The notice includes a statement about copyright: © 2026 Liu et al. and confirms that the work may be reused with attribution in accordance with that license.
This correction updates the institutional attribution for the authors and clarifies that Jing Liu holds a second affiliation with the Graduate School of Dalian Medical University in Dalian, China, in addition to affiliation with the Department of Radiation Oncology at the General Hospital of Northern Theater Command in Shenyang, China. For readers citing the article or contacting authors for correspondence, the corrected affiliations should be used as the authoritative record provided by PLOS One.
The correction notice is available on the PLOS One website and links to the original article (PLOS One 2026;21(6):e0350042). The correction includes DOI metadata and a downloadable PDF. The correction is recorded in the journal’s metadata and should appear in bibliographic records that reflect post-publication corrections.
Reference
Liu J, Lv D, Wang H, Yang D, Xu Y, Yan Y. GDF15 participates in epithelial cell senescence in radiation-induced lung injury through the ERK1/2-p16 signaling pathway. PLoS One. 2026;21(6):e0350042. pmid:42263110
Note: The source correction notice does not report any additional changes beyond the author affiliation corrections, and it does not provide further details about the study’s experimental findings or conclusions.