There was an error published in J. Cell Sci.124, 1411-1424.

A funding source was accidentally omitted from the acknowledgements. The acknowledgements paragraph should read as follows:

We thank Kathryn Howell and Chad Pearson (University of Colorado, Denver) for critical reading of the manuscript. We also thank Andrew Peden (Cambridge University) for the VAMP8–GFP construct, anti-VAMP8 antibodies and VAMP8-targeted siRNAs, Gero Miesenbock (University of Oxford) for pHluorin cDNA, Tom Kirchhausen for dynasore (Harvard Medical School) and Bruce Banfield for RK cells stably expressing GFP–tubulin. This work was supported in part by grants from NIH-NIDDK (DK064380 to R.P.) and NIH-NCRR (P41-RR000592). E.R. is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science. Deposited in PMC for release after 6 months.

The authors apologise for this mistake.