Following an investigation by the University of the Ryukyus, which revealed that figures that appeared within this paper had also been used in other papers without appropriate attribution or explanation (a pattern repeated over a number of publications in different journals), the Editorial Board of the Biochemical Journal retract this paper. The last author, Naoki Mori, takes full responsibility for the misrepresentation of data in this paper.
. 2011 Feb 24;434(Pt 3):571. doi: 10.1042/BJ4340571
Activation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 in human T-cell leukaemia virus type 1-infected cell lines and primary adult T-cell leukaemia cells
M Tomita
, G L Semenza
, C Michiels
, T Matsuda
, J-N Uchihara
, T Okudaira
, Y Tanaka
, N Taira
, K Ohshiro
, N Mori
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Issue date 2011 Mar 15.
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This retracts the article "Activation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 in human T-cell leukaemia virus type 1-infected cell lines and primary adult T-cell leukaemia cells" in volume 406 on page 317.