Correction to: Cell Death Discovery (2017) 3, 16064; doi:10.1038/cddiscovery.2016.64; published online 6 February 2017

Since the publication of this article, it has been noted that the following acknowledgement was missing:

Mujib Ullah and Yasumasa Kuroda contributed equally to the work.

The authors apologise for this error.

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