Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21106-5, published online 12 February 2018

This original version of this Article contained typographical errors.

In the Abstract,

“Our RNA interference screen identifies identified genes that regulate autophagy at different stages, which helps decode autophagy regulation in cancer and offers novel avenues to develop autophagy-related therapies for cancer.”

now reads:

“Our RNA interference screen identified genes that regulate autophagy at different stages, which helps decode autophagy regulation in cancer and offers novel avenues to develop autophagy-related therapies for cancer.”

Additionally, in the Results section under the subheading ‘MDC stains autophagic K562 cells’,

“Immuno-detection of the lapidated lipidated form of LC3B (LC3B-II) located on the membrane of autophagosomes and GFP-LC3B fluorescence microscopy that monitors the formation of autophagosomes (GFP-LC3B puncta) are well-established autophagy assays32,33.”

now reads:

“Immuno-detection of the lipidated form of LC3B (LC3B-II) located on the membrane of autophagosomes and GFP-LC3B fluorescence microscopy that monitors the formation of autophagosomes (GFP-LC3B puncta) are well-established autophagy assays32,33.”

Finally, the Supplemental data file contained errors in Figures 5G and 5H where “Bafilomycin A1” was incorrectly labelled as “Bafilomucin A1”.

These errors have now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the Article, and in the accompanying Supplemental data file.