Retraction of: Oncogene (2012) 31, 4362-4371; doi:10.1038/onc.2011.600; published online 16 January 2012

Following an internal investigation by the University of Maryland, Baltimore, the Editors and Publisher have agreed to retract this paper owing to the results of the investigation concluding that Figure 2 does not support the claim of presenting new data from keratinocytes.