Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 32825; published online: 13 September 2016; updated: 21 November 2016.

This Article contains an error in the Results section under subheading ‘Particle-induced membrane deformation’.

“For this we discern two extreme situations: tense vesicles with a (non-fluctuating) spherical shape (σ > 1 μN/m) and floppy vesicles that exhibit clear fluctuations around a spherical shape (σ > 10 nN/m)”.

should read:

“For this we discern two extreme situations: tense vesicles with a (non-fluctuating) spherical shape (σ > 1 μN/m) and floppy vesicles that exhibit clear fluctuations around a spherical shape (σ < 10 nN/m)”.