Correction to: Cell Death Discovery (2021) 7:196; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41420-021-00574-1, published online 27 July 2021

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. Due to a typesetting error the following sentence was omitted: “The authors contributed equally: Susu Guo and Yuxin Chen”. We apologize for the error. The original article has been corrected.