Retraction Note: J Exp Clin Cancer Res 40, 177 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13046-021-01973-z

The Editor in Chief has retracted this article. After concerns were raised regarding the western blots in the article the Authors were asked to provide the images of the original blots, however, the authors were unable to provide the whole film for each blot. The Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the presented results and the conclusions drawn in this study.

Lin-pei Wang, Jing Lin, Xiao-qiu Ma, Chun-feng Shi, Wei Wang & Xiao-jie Jiang do not agree to this retraction. Dong-yao Xu has not responded to any correspondence from the editor/publisher about this retraction.