Retraction statement: Long noncoding RNA MALAT1 promotes the stemness of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by enhancing YAP transcriptional activity. FEBS Open Bio, 9: 1392-1402.

https://doi.org/10.1002/2211-5463.12676 The above article, published online on 22 May 2019 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the Editor-in-Chief Miguel A. De la Rosa, FEBS Press, and John Wiley and Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed following an investigation into concerns raised by a third party, which revealed inappropriate duplications between this and previously published articles [1-3]. Thus, the editors consider the conclusions of this manuscript substantially compromised. [1] RETRACTED: Wu, H., He, Y., Chen, H., Liu, Y., Wei, B., Chen, G., Lin, H. and Lin, H. (2019), Retracted: LncRNA THOR increases osteosarcoma cell stemness and migration by enhancing SOX9 mRNA stability. FEBS Open Bio, 9: 781-790. https://doi.org/10.1002/2211-5463.12620 [2] Xiao, Y., Pan, J., Geng, Q. and Wang, G. (2019), LncRNA MALAT1 increases the stemness of gastric cancer cells via enhancing SOX2 mRNA stability. FEBS Open Bio, 9: 1212-1222. https://doi.org/10.1002/2211-5463.12649 [3] Hou, H, Yu, X, Cong, P, Zhou, Y, Xu, Y, Jiang, Y. (2019). Six2 promotes non-small cell lung cancer cell stemness via transcriptionally and epigenetically regulating E-cadherin. Cell Prolif.; 52:e12617. https://doi.org/10.1111/cpr.12617.