RETRACTION: A Long Non-Coding RNA OLBC15 Promotes Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Progression Via Enhancing ZNF326...

C. Deng, B. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. Xu, D. Xiong, X. Chen, and J. Wu, "A Long Non-Coding RNA OLBC15 Promotes Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Progression Via Enhancing ZNF326 Degradation," Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis 34, no. 8 (2020): e23304, https://doi.org/10.1002/jcla.23304. The above article, published online on 24 April 2020, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the authors; the journal Editor-in-Chief, Rong Fu; and Wiley Periodicals, LLC. The corresponding author Jiaojiao Wu contacted the journal to request that the article be retracted for the following reasons: 1. An inability to reproduce key experimental results; 2. Technical errors in the experimental protocols that may have compromised the reliability and reproducibility of the data (inconsistencies in RNA pulldown assay conditions, potential cross-contamination in cell line experiments, and insufficient validation of antibody specificity for ZNF326 detection); and 3. Discrepancies in the original data, calling into question the western blot images in Figures 4B, 5A, and 5B; the quantification data for migration assays; and IHC scoring consistency in clinical samples. Following an investigation, images in Figures 4 and 5 were found to be duplicated from earlier publications: Figure 4D being from Figure 3A in Koo et al. 2017 (https://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-17-0077), Figure 5B being from Figure 5B in Shen et al. 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcla.23122), and Figure 5E being from Figure 2G in Li et al. 2018 (https://doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S183355). Due to the scope of these errors, the editor has lost confidence in the results reported, and therefore the article must be retracted.