Retraction Note to: Mol Cell Biochem (2013) 377:87–96 DOI 10.1007/s11010-013-1573-2

The Editor-in-Chief retracts this article as per the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on plagiarism. After a thorough investigation, it was found that there is a striking level of similarity in the layout and content of this paper with another publication (Tumor Biology (2013) 34:231–239; doi:10.1007/s13277-012-0543-8). It is also pointed out that the authors have failed to respond to these similarity issues, first brought to their attention in 2015.