Retraction of: Nature Cell Biology https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3547, published online 31 May 2017.

Given that the authors of ‘FMN2 makes perinuclear actin to protect nuclei during confined migration and promote metastasis’ (Skau et al. Cell 167, 1571–1585; 2016) have retracted their paper, I wish to retract this Research Highlight, which discussed the findings reported in that study.