Correction to: Cell Death Discovery https://doi.org/10.1038/s41420-021-00577-y, published online 26 July 2021

In this article, a minor concern regarding Figure 6 have been noticed by Shouhua Wang et al., which is no impact on the final finding and conclusion, they made an error for label for miR-339-3p in the Figure 6C–H, the label for miR-338-3p or miR-33p-3p should be miR-339-3p, the figure legends and figure data is right. A modified composite figure has now been created. The amended figure is shown below. The authors express regrets for their error.