Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 44257; published online: 10 March 2017; updated: 10 July 2017

This article contains a typographical error in the Materials and Methods section under the subheading ‘Growth assays’.

‘Caffeine and rapamycin were used at concentrations of 100 mM and 100 ng mL−1, respectively while hydrogen peroxide at a concentration of 0.5 mM’.

should read:

‘Caffeine and rapamycin were used at concentrations of 10 mM and 100 ng mL−1, respectively while hydrogen peroxide at a concentration of 0.5 mM’.