Correction to: Cellular & Molecular Immunology (2017) 14, 482–487; doi:10.1038/cmi.2017.4; published online 13 March 2017

In this article, the name of an author was listed incorrectly. The author names should have been listed as Jason R Goldsmith, Svetlana Fayngerts and Youhai H Chen. The authors regret the errors.