Retraction of: Scientific Reports 10.1038/srep44688, published online 20 April 2017
The authors have retracted this Article.
After publication they became aware that the oral cancer cell line had been contaminated with HeLa cells. In addition, there are irregularities in a number of figures, specifically:
Apparent overlap of the flow cytometry plots shown in Figure 1A and 1B which are for different cell lines
Duplication of blots between Figure 4A and Figure 4C
Duplication of blots between Figure 5B and Figure 5D
Duplication of blots between Figure 7B and Figure 7D
Duplication of parts of panels both within Figures 8 and 9 and between Figures 8 and 9 and parts of panels in figures in other articles1–4
All authors agree to this retraction
Footnotes
These authors contributed equally: Bin Qiao and Bao-Xia He.
Contributor Information
Bin Qiao, Email: qiaobin@zzu.edu.cn.
Alfred King-yin Lam, Email: a.lam@griffith.edu.au.
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