Retraction to: Cell Death and Disease https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-020-2416-1, published online 08 April 2020

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding the data presented in the figures, specifically:

  • Fig. 3a and 6f top right images appear to overlap.

  • In Fig. 3c, two images appear highly similar to Fig. 3a in [1], and one image appears highly similar to Fig. 4a in [2].

  • Fig. 7f TPC-1 TDG lane 1 appears to stand out from the image background.

  • Fig. 7j TPC-1 GAPDH lanes appear to be misaligned vertically.

In addition, the Ethics approval numbers are not provided in the text.

The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the presented data.

The authors have not responded to any correspondence from the editor or publisher about this retraction.