Correction to: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-022-00479-6, published online 5 May 2022.

In Figure 1b, the label ‘Hyper-osmotic shock’ was incorrectly shown as ‘Hypo-osmotic shock’. This error has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the article; we apologise for the confusion.