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. 2018 Jul 25;20:77. doi: 10.1186/s13058-018-1021-z

Retraction Note: Nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 maintained by Hotair suppression of miR-568 upregulates S100 calcium binding protein A4 to promote breast cancer metastasis

Jun-Tang Li 1,2,#, Li-Feng Wang 3,#, Ya-Li Zhao 2,#, Tao Yang 1, Wei Li 1, Jing Zhao 3, Feng Yu 2, Lei Wang 3, Yan-Ling Meng 1, Ning-Ning Liu 2, Xiao-Shan Zhu 2, Chun-Fang Gao 2, Lin-Tao Jia 3,✉, An-Gang Yang 1,✉
PMCID: PMC6058376  PMID: 30045762

Retraction

The authors are retracting this article [1] after an investigation by the Ethics Committee of the Fourth Military Medical University (Xi’an, Shaanxi, China) of the following concerns that had been raised with respect to two of the figures:

Figure 1C, upper panel: areas of the image labelled as “Mock” and of that shown as “Scramble” are duplicated.

Figure 1D: the image labelled as “Scramble, 24 h” and that shown as “siNFAT5, 48 h” are duplicated.

Figure 3A: areas of the image labelled as “Invaded, siCtrl” and that shown as “Before Scraping, siS100A4” are duplicated.

Footnotes

The original article can be found online at 10.1186/s13058-018-1021-z

Jun-Tang Li, Li-Feng Wang and Ya-Li Zhao contributed equally to this work.

Contributor Information

Lin-Tao Jia, Email: jialth@fmmu.edu.cn.

An-Gang Yang, Email: agyang@fmmu.edu.cn.

Reference

  • 1.Li J-T, Wang L-F, Zhao Y-L, Yang T, Li W, Zhao J, et al. Nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 maintained by Hotair suppression of miR-568 upregulates S100 calcium binding protein A4 to promote breast cancer metastasis. Breast Cancer Res. 2014;16:454. doi: 10.1186/s13058-014-0454-2. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Retracted]

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