Zeeshan Javed1, Khushbukhat Khan2, Jesús Herrera-Bravo3,4, Sajid Naeem5, Muhammad Javed Iqbal6, Haleema Sadia7, Qamar Raza Qadri8, Shahid Raza1, Asma Irshad9, Ali Akbar10, Željko Reiner11, Ahmed Al-Harrasi12, Ahmed Al-Rawahi12, Dinara Satmbekova13, Monica Butnariu14, Iulia Cristina Bagiu15,16, Radu Vasile Bagiu15,17, Javad Sharifi-Rad18. 1. Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC), Lahore Garrison University, Sector-C, DHA Phase-VI, Lahore, Pakistan. 2. Department of Healthcare Biotechnology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan. 3. Departamento de Ciencias BasicasFacultad de Ciencias, Universidad Santo Tomas, Santiago, Chile. 4. Center of Molecular Biology and Pharmacogenetics, Scientific and Technological Bioresource Nucleus, Universidad de La Frontera, 4811230, Temuco, Chile. 5. School of Life Sciences, Lanzhuo University, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China. 6. Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan. javed.iqbal@uskt.edu.pk. 7. Department of Biotechnology, BUITEMS, Quetta, Pakistan. 8. Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. 9. Department of Life Sciences, University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. 10. Department of Microbiology, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan. 11. Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. 12. Natural and Medical Sciences Research Centre, University of Nizwa, Birkat Almouz , Nizwa, 616, Oman. 13. High School of Medicine, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. 14. Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" From Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania. monicabutnariu@yahoo.com. 15. Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timisoara Discipline of Microbiology, Timisoara, Romania. 16. Multidisciplinary Research Center On Antimicrobial Resistance, Timisoara, Romania. 17. Preventive Medicine Study Center, Timisoara, Romania. 18. Phytochemistry Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. javad.sharifirad@gmail.com.
Correction: Cancer Cell Int (2021) 21:388 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-021-02091-8
The authors would like to clarify that reference [9], which has been retracted, was included in this review article [1] in error. We apologise to readers for any inconvenience caused.