Retraction: Glucose deprivation increases mRNA stability of vascular endothelial growth factor through activation of AMP-activated protein kinase in DU145 prostate carcinoma (Journal of Biological Chemistry (2005) 280 (9963–9972) DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M412994200)

This article has been withdrawn by the authors. The last band of the ACC immunoblot from Control in Fig. 1A was reused as a-actinin in Fig. 4B. Additionally, part of the ACC immunoblot from Fig. 1A was reused as a-actinin in Fig. 9. The AMPK-a immunoblot from hypoxic conditions in Fig. 1A was reused in Fig. 10C. The p-ACC immunoblot from Fig. 1A is a composite image and only shows 5 lanes of data rather than 6. In Fig. 4B, the first two lanes of the HIF-1a immunoblot may correspond to different experimental conditions than what is indicated in the figure. There were undeclared gel splices in the Northern blot of Fig. 8; the third band from -Glucose in Fig. 8A and the first band of Fig. 8B originated from other experiments, which the authors state were performed under the identical experimental conditions. Because some of the original data are no longer available, the authors state that they repeated the above experiments and obtained essentially identical results. The authors state that they have full confidence in the conclusions of this paper. The authors apologize to the readers.