Retraction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09865-9, published online 06 May 2019

The authors have retracted this article due to image errors across the figures, and some of the data lacking biological repeats, which calls into question the reliability of the data and the conclusions. In particular, there are errors in the immunohistochemistry images in Figure 6A, invasion assay images in Figure 1C, western blots (Figure 5D and Supplementary Figure 2F) and would healing assay images (Supplementary Figure 1B). The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the community.

Xinyao Lin, Guoshi Chai, Yingming Wu, Jiexin Li, Feng Chen, Jianzhao Liu, Guanzheng Luo, Jordi Tauler, Shuibin Lin, Chuan He and Hongsheng Wang agree to this retraction. Jun Du has not responded to any correspondence from the editor or publisher about this retraction.