Correction to: Cell Discovery (2017) 3, 17006; doi:10.1038/celldisc.2017.6; published online 21 March 2017

In the initial published version of this article, a mistake was made in the affiliation 1, where ‘Sun Yat-sen University’ should be added after the School of Life Sciences. The corrected affiliation 1 is displayed below. This addition does not affect the results, figures and conclusion of the paper.

1Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China;