Retraction of: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93688-6, published online 13 July 2021


The Editors have retracted this Article.


After publication of this Article, concerns were brought to the attention of Editors regarding some of the data presented. The Editors requested the original data for this study. However, the data provided by the Authors for Figure 1 and Tables 3 and 4 could not be unambiguously ascribed to the experiments described. As these data are the basis for the main conclusions of the study, the Editors no longer have confidence that the conclusions presented are supported.


Destaw Asfaw Ali, Tesfaye Sisay Tesema and Yosef Deneke Belachew disagree with this retraction.