Retraction Note to: Mol Cell Biochem (2014) 385:115–123 DOI 10.1007/s11010-013-1820-6

The Editor-in-Chief retracts this article as per the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on plagiarism. After a thorough investigation this article was found to contain substantial sections that were taken from a Ph.D. thesis (Molecular Mechanisms of Adipogenesis in Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome) without proper attribution and acknowledgement.