Retraction Note to: Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (2017) 429:199–210 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11010-017-2947-7

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article at the request of one of the corresponding authors, Hong-Fei Xu, who has stated that the authors have been unable to repeat their finding of a direct effect of miR-20b on ZFP-148 protein in viral myocarditis. All authors agree with this retraction.