RETRACTION: miR-889 Promotes Proliferation of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinomas Through DAB2IP

Y. Xu, J. He, Y. Wang, X. Zhu, Q. Pan, Q. Xie and F. Sun, "miR-889 Promotes Proliferation of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinomas Through DAB2IP," FEBS Letters 589, no. 10 (2015): 1127-1135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2015.03.027. The above article, published online on 01 April 2015 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors; the journal Editor-in-Chief, Michael Brunner; the Federation of European Biochemical Societies; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed upon following concerns raised by a third party. Following an investigation, duplicated elements were identified between Figures 2A and 5C, as well as between Figures 2B and 5C. Furthermore, inconsistencies were observed in the siDAB2IP colonies shown in Figures 4C and 4D. Finally, in Figure 6A, the 400x panel for Tumor #1 does not correspond to the 200x panel. The author cooperated with the investigation, stating that the duplications were an error due to figure mismanagement and provided some supporting data. However, the data provided was not considered to be satisfactory. Given the extent of the identified issues, the editors have lost confidence in the data presented and consider the conclusions to be compromised.