Retraction to: Oncogene https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1203339, published online 16 February 2000

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article. Concerns were raised regarding image similarities in the figures. Specifically:

  • In Fig. 1a, the -UV images representing 10E6 and 77E6 appear to contain an overlapping area.

  • In Fig. 3a, the -UV images representing Vector, 10E6 and 77E6 appear to contain an overlapping area.

  • Also in Fig. 3a, the -UV and +UV images representing 18E6, and the -UV image representing 5E6 appear to originate from the same sample, with stretching and rotation.

  • In Fig. 5a, the 5E6 + UV (all time points) and 77E6 + UV (0 days) images appear highly similar.

  • In Fig. 5b, the 10E6 + UV (6 days) and 77E6 + UV (3 days) images appear highly similar.

  • In Fig. 5a and b, the Vector control + UV and 10E6 + UV images appear to contain repetitive areas.

The authors are unable to provide the original data because of the age of the study. Due to the high number of concerns, the Editors-in-Chief no longer have confidence in the presented data.

Alan Storey does not agree to this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for Sarah Jackson.