Retraction:

Yong-Jian Wang^1,*, Zi-Feng Zhang^1,*, Shao-Hua Fan¹, Juan Zhuang^1,2,3, Qun Shan¹, Xin-Rui Han¹, Xin Wen¹, Meng-Qiu Li¹, Bin Hu¹, Chun-Hui Sun¹, Bin Qiao⁴, Qian Tao⁴, Dong-Mei Wu¹, Jun Lu¹ and Yuan-Lin Zheng¹

¹Key Laboratory for Biotechnology on Medicinal Plants of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, P.R. China
²School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221008, P.R. China
³Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Eco-Agricultural Biotechnology around Hongze Lake, School of Life Sciences, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaian 223300, P.R. China
⁴Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School and Hospital of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510055, P.R. China
^*These authors have contributed equally to this work

Published: September 14, 2022

Copyright: © 2022 Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

This article has been retracted: In July of 2020, the Academic Committee of Jiangsu Normal University launched an investigation into this paper and requested that the authors provide the original experimental records and data for verification. To date, however, the authors have failed to provide the requested documents. The committee has concluded that this paper displays signs of academic fraud. In light of this, the paper is retracted. The University and Oncotarget thank the Pubpeer community for raising the concerns.

Original article: Oncotarget. 2017; 8:100227–100241. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.22151.