Yang Hu1, Hong Xie1, Yankun Liu1, Weiying Liu1, Min Liu1, Hua Tang2. 1. Tianjin Life Science Research Center and Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical University, 22 Qi‑Xiang‑Tai Road, Tianjin, 300070, China. 2. Tianjin Life Science Research Center and Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical University, 22 Qi‑Xiang‑Tai Road, Tianjin, 300070, China. tangh@tijmu.edu.cn.
Retraction to: Cancer Cell Int (2017) 17:36 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-017-0407-9
The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article [1]. Concerns were raised regarding a number of figures, specifically:Figure 3a: the first and third panel for C33A appear to partially overlap.Figure 3b: panel 2 for C33A appears to partially overlap with panel 2 for C33A in Figure 7b.Figure 7a: panel 1 for HeLa appears to overlap with panel 3 for HeLa in Figure 7b.Figure 7a: panel 3 for C33A appears to partially overlap with panels 4 and 4 for C33A in Figure 7b: panel 6 for HeLa appears to partially overlap with panel 5 for C33A.The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the reliability of the data reported in the article.All authors agree to this retraction.