Correction to: Cell Death and Disease (2017) 8, e2655; doi:10.1038/cddis.2016.222; published online 2 March 2017.

It has been noticed since publication of this article that the full names of the authors were omitted. The correct author list is as follows:

Wenkai Ren, Gang Liu, Jie Yin, Bie Tan, Guoyao Wu, Fuller W Bazer, Yuanyi Peng, Yulong Yin