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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “ATG4D”

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The source

Human autophagins, a family of cysteine proteinases potentially implicated in cell degradation by autophagy

Guillermo Marino, Jose A Uria, Xose S Puente, Victor Quesada et al.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry · published February 2003 · cited 171 times by other papers

Retracted Jan 25, 2019

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