Correction to: Nature Cell Biology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-018-0266-1, published online 28 January 2019

In the version of this Article originally published, some key information was missing from the legend for Fig. 1b. The following sentence should be added to annotate the immunoblotting samples: ‘Line 1 is GST-Akt1 input control and lines 2–4 show in vitro binding assay followed by immunoprecipitation (IP) Flag-SETDB1 and IB analysis’.