[Retracted] Tripartite motif 16 inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma cell migration and invasion

Following the publication of this paper, it was drawn to the Editors' attention by a concerned reader that various panels showing the western blotting data in Figs. 1D, 3A, 6A and C, 9B and 10A, the Transwell migration and invasion assays in Fig. 10C, and the H&E staining images from the lung portrayed in Fig. 5B were strikingly similar to data largely appearing in different form in other articles by different authors from different research institutions. Moreover, the data panels showing the Transwell migration and assay experiments in Figs. 3C and D and 4C and D showed several overlapping sections, such that the data appeared to have been selected from a small number of original sources to represent differently performed experiments. Owing to the fact that the contentious data in the above article had already been published prior to its submission to International Journal of Oncology, the Editor has decided that this paper should be retracted from the Journal. The authors were asked for an explanation to account for these concerns, but the Editorial Office did not receive a reply. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused. [International Journal of Oncology 48: 1639‑1649, 2016; DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2016.3398].