Retracted: Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein-Associated Protein A Is Involved in Androgen Receptor Trafficking in Mouse Sertoli Cells

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International Journal of Endocrinology has retracted the article titled “Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein-Associated Protein A Is Involved in Androgen Receptor Trafficking in Mouse Sertoli Cells” [1].

A reader noted that the article is one of the series of four articles on androgen receptor (AR) localization/trafficking in a mouse Sertoli cell line published by the authors in 2017-18, two in the Hindawi journal International Journal of Endocrinology and two in Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry.

The details of the articles are as follows:(1)Q.

Deng, Y.

Wu, Z.

Zhang, et al., “Androgen receptor localizes to plasma membrane by binding to Caveolin-1 in mouse sertoli cells,” International Journal of Endocrinology, vol.

2017, Article ID 3985916, 8 pages, 2017.

https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3985916.

Published 31 May 2017, on AR localization to the membrane depending on caveolin [2].(2)Q.

Deng, Z.

Zhang, Y.

Wu, et al., “Non-genomic action of androgens is mediated by rapid phosphorylation and regulation of androgen receptor trafficking,” Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, vol.

43, pp.

223–236, 2017.

https://doi.org/10.1159/000480343.

Published 29 August 2017, on phosphorylation when AR localizes under testosterone treatment.

Figure 1 is the same as Figure 1 in IJE/3985916.

This does not cite IJE/3985916 [3].(3)The retracted article.

Published 4 March 2018, on the role of VAPA (a vesicle-associated protein) and OSBP in AR trafficking.

In Figure 1(c), the top-left panels are the same as Figure 2(a) in IJE/3985916, though the western blots are intended to represent AR, VAPA, and pan cadherin versus AR, caveolin, and E-cadherin, respectively.

This cites IJE/3985916 and CPB/480343 [1].(4)Q.

Deng, C.

He, Y.

Wu, et al., “CSN6 and Rab34 are involved in androgen receptor trafficking in mouse testicular sertoli cells,” Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, vol.

47, pp.

2360–2368, 2018.

https://doi.org/10.1159/000491608.

Published 9 July 2018, on the role of CSN6 and Rab34 in AR trafficking.

Figure 1 is the same as Figures 1(a) and 1(b) in IJE/4537214 and the text in the introduction and the beginning of the discussion is similar to IJE/4537214.

This cites IJE/3985916 and IJE/4537214 [4].