This article has been retracted: Aging has completed its investigation of this paper. We found that four images of immunofluorescent staining in Figure 5A were previously published as Figure 6A in a 2012 paper by different authors [1]. In addition, Western blot bands in Figure 5B show internal duplication with bands in Figures 7B and Figure 2C in an earlier published paper from Huang et al [2] as well as Figure 6A in an unrelated paper [3]. There are also multiple overlaps between Western blot bands in Figures 6G and 7B with figures in unrelated papers all published in 2019 [4–6]. The authors informed the journal that they cannot reproduce the data published in the paper. As a result, all authors agreed that the article should be retracted.
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