This article is being retracted from Bioscience Reports at the request of the authors due to concerns over the reliability of the results. The Editorial Office and the authors were alerted by a reader to apparent similarities between images in this manuscript with those from other manuscripts (from unrelated authors), which include the following:
Figure 5C GAPDH/A549 bands and the GAPDH bands of both Fig. 5F from Liu et al. 2020 (doi: 10.1042/BSR20191330) and Fig. 4L from Fu et al. 2019 (doi: 10.18632/aging.102325),
The Figure 3 A549 migration/si-NC, H1299 migration/si-circVANGL1 and the H1299 invasion/si-circVANGL1 panels with those from Figs. 6D and 7F from Yang et al. 2020 (doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.01104),
Figure 2A (A549 and H1299/Bcl-2 and GAPDH bands) with bands from Fig. 3D from Sun et al. 2017 (doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.15846),
The Figure 6A A549/GAPDH band with bands in both Fig. 3F from Chen et al. 2019 (doi: 10.1042/BSR20191050) and Fig. 4C from Li et al. 2019 (doi: 10.1042/BSR20181882).
The authors have been unable to find the original data and are therefore unable to correct the article. They wish to retract the article. The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board agree with the retraction.