This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the editor as the data in the paper are largely duplicated in a paper entitled “Comparative proteomics reveals deficiency of SLC9A1 (sodium/hydrogen exchanger NHE1) in β-adducin null red cells” that had been accepted for publication at the time it was submitted to this journal and, subsequently, was published in Br. J. Haematol., 154 (2011) 492–501, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2141.2011.08612.x. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that the data in the paper is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The republication of the same data in two journals is inappropriate and further burdens the scientific community, given the already vast amount of original material with which it is confronted.