RETRACTED: High-yield Expression of Therapeutic Proteins with Extended Serum Half-life in Tobacco Cells

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and Author. Please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).Reason: The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared: High-yields and extended serum half-life of human interferon α2b expressed in tobacco cells as arabinogalactan-protein fusions; Biotechnol. Bioeng., 97 (2007) 997–1008, doi:10.1002/bit.21407. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and we apologize to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.