Retraction Note to: Cell Death and Disease https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-019-2170-4, published online 09 December 2019

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article because of concerns regarding the figures presented in this work. These concerns call into question the article’s overall scientific soundness. An investigation conducted after its publication discovered the following issues:

  • Panels Normal, Case 1 and Tumor, Case 1 in Figure 1C appear to overlap, when rotated, with Panels H716 and CO802 D5 in Fig. 6 in [1];

  • Panel Vector, GIST-T1 in Figure 2E appears to overlap, when rotated, with Panel mir-9-5p mimics control, MKN-45 in Fig. 3B in [2];

  • Panel Vector, GIST-882 in Figure 2E appears to overlap, when rotated, with Panel HEC1A, si-TTB-AS1+miR-NC in Fig. 4E in [3];

  • Panel BRD4 in Figure 3E appears to overlap, when rotated, with the first panel of Fig. 3A in [4];

  • Panels Vector, BRD4 and BRD4, BRD4 in Figure 4C appear to overlap, when rotated, with Panels C and E with Fig. 4 in [5];

  • The four panels in Figure 7A appear to overlap, when rotated, with Panels 24 h, BRAF V600E, 24 h, pEGFR, and 24 h, EGFR in Fig. 3 and Ischemia, BRAF V600E in Fig. 4 in [5];

  • The two panels in Figure 3F appear to overlap, when rotated, with second and third panels of Fig. 3A in [6].

The panels in question represent tissues taken from animals subject to different experimental conditions. The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the integrity of the research presented in this article.

The authors have not replied to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction.