Retraction to: Oncogene https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1204847, published online 25 October 2001

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted the article. Figure 3 panel SNB19 contains partial overlap with panel V after rotation, and panel S1 appears to overlap with panel S2. The authors were unable to provide a sufficient response to the concerns. The Editors have lost confidence in the data and conclusions of this article.

The publisher was unable to obtain a current email address for authors Jasti S Rao, Yoshiaki Kin, Sajani S Lakka, Meena Gujrati, Nirmala Chandrasekar, Anastasia Tasiou, and Sanjeeva Mohanam. All other authors did not respond to correspondence from the publisher regarding this retraction.