LINC00894 Enhances the Progression of Breast Cancer by Sponging miR-429 to Regulate ZEB1 Expression [Retraction]

Meng D, Shao H, Feng C. Onco Targets Ther. 2021;14:3395-3407.

We, the Editors and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy, have retracted the following article.

Following publication of the article, concerns were raised about the duplication of images from Figures 2 and 6 with images from other unrelated articles. Specifically,

• Images for Figures 2C, 2D, and 6B have been duplicated with images for Figures 2C and 7B from Chen T, Gao F, Yang T, et al. LncRNA HOTAIRM1 Inhibits the Proliferation and Invasion of Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells via the miR-498/WWOX Axis. Cancer Manag Res. 2020;12:4379-4390. https://doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S244573.
• Images for Figure 2G have been duplicated with images for Figure 2H from Wang F, Yang Q. Long Non-Coding RNA LINC01089 Enhances the Development of Gastric Cancer by Sponging miR-145-5p to Mediate SOX9 Expression. Onco Targets Ther. 2020;13:9213-9224. https://doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S249392.
• Images for Figure 6C have been duplicated with images for Figure 2E from Jiang X, Chen D. LncRNA FAM181A-AS1 promotes gliomagenesis by sponging miR-129-5p and upregulating ZRANB2. Aging (Albany NY). 2020;12:20069-20084. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.103391.
• Images for Figure 6D have been duplicated with images for Figures 3C, 3D and 5E from Li Q, Wang W, Zhang M, Sun W, Shi W, Li F. Circular RNA circ-0016068 Promotes the Growth, Migration, and Invasion of Prostate Cancer Cells by Regulating the miR-330-3p/BMI-1 Axis as a Competing Endogenous RNA. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 2020;8:827. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2020.00827; Figure 6F from Dai Y, Zhang Y, Hao M, Zhu R. LINC00665 functions as a competitive endogenous RNA to regulate AGTR1 expression by sponging miR‑34a‑5p in glioma. Oncology Reports. 2021;45:1202-1212. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2021.7949 and Figure 7C from Jiang X, Chen D. Circular RNA hsa_circ_0000658 inhibits osteosarcoma cell proliferation and migration via the miR-1227/IRF2 axis. J Cell Mol Med. 2021;25:510–520. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.16105.

The authors did not respond to our queries and were unable to provide an explanation for the duplicated images or provide data for the study. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article and the authors were notified of this.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our editorial policies and COPE guidelines.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.