Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39213-2, published online 21 February 2019

This Article contains errors in Reference 29 which was incorrectly given as:

Wills, P. R. Editors’ forum mechanism of replication scrapie prion for Induced frameshifting an information-carrying. 235–249 (1989).

The correct reference is listed below as ref. 1: