Correction to: Cell Death and Disease (2012) 3, e276; doi:10.1038/cddis.2012.16; published online 1 March 2012

Since the publication of this article, the authors have noticed that the work was also performed by Dr. Joerg Reinders, Institute of Functional Genomics, University Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

This error has now been rectified and the corrected author and affiliation lists are shown above. The corrected article appears online, together with this corrigendum.