Retraction Note to: Cell Death & Disease https://doi.org/10.1038/cddis.2017.119, published online 18 May 2017

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article. Concerns were raised regarding a number of figures, specifically:

  • Figure 2j: the panels for anti-miR-106b and anti-miR-93 appear to partially overlap.

  • Figure 6a: panel 3 (left) and panel 3 (right) for MDA-MB-231 appear to partially overlap.

The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the reliability of the data reported in the article.

Author Li Jia has stated on behalf of all authors that they disagree with this retraction.