Correction to: Oncogene (2015) 34, 3895–3907; doi:10.1038/onc.2014.430; published online 22 December 2014

Since the publication of the above article, the Department of Cancer and Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati, requested the authors who have listed the University in their affiliation to remove the affiliation from this publication as the study was not performed at the University and was not associated with their roles at the University.

As a result, the authors have requested Mingjun Bi, Anne-Marie Overstreet and Alex Meredith be removed from the author list and listed instead under the Acknowledgement section of the paper. Xingyuan Yang had already left the University of Cincinnati and carried out some work at his current institution, Institute of Health Sciences, Anhui University, thus the authors have requested his affiliation be updated.

The amended author list and acknowledgements section are shown below:

Authors: J Cui1, Y Yang2, H Li3, Y Leng4, K Qian4, Q Huang5, C Zhang6, Z Lu1, J Chen7, T Sun7, R Wu1, Y Sun1, H Song1, X Wei8, P Jing9, X Yang10, C Zhang1

1Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; 2Beijing Institute for Neuroscience, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; 3Department of Molecular & Biomedical Pharmacology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA; 4The Affiliated Hospital of Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, China; 5Department of Animal Sciences and Technology, Jilin Agriculture University, Changchun, China; 6Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; 7Urology Department, the First Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China; 8Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China; 9Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN, USA and 10Institute of Health Sciences, Anhui University, Hefei, China