Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56320-z, published online 13 March 2025

In the version of the article initially published, the Author contributions did not mention that Pin-Chun Lin conceptualized the study and designed experiments, and initiated experiments and ideas related to HC-Pro inhibiting HEN1 and HC-Pro–induced autophagic degradation of AGO1, as is now amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.