Retraction Note to: Oncogene https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1204983, published online 12 February 2002

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article. Figure 6 appears to contain undeclared splicing. Figure 7 appears to contain a number of repetitions between blot lanes. The authors did not respond to the concerns raised. The Editors have lost confidence in the data and conclusions of this article.

The publisher has been unable to obtain a current email address for authors Francis Ali Osman, Chilukuri N Rao, Walter Kisiel, Meena Gujrati, Jasti S Rao, Anastasia Tasiou and Donald C Foster. All other authors did not respond to correspondence from the publisher regarding this retraction.