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At the request of the authors and after careful internal review, the above article published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology has been retracted. It has been brought to the authors' attention that a number of errors had been made during the final assembly of the images from different groups in this article. Specifically, some images of immunostaining in Figures 2E and 4A of the article were mistakenly duplicated. Western blot bands in Figure 5, E and F were mispresented in a later publication (Zhou et al., PLoS One 2016; 11:e0162873). The authors believe a retraction is an appropriate correction to the published record.