After the acceptance of the article and during the pre‑publication stages, the author listed second on the paper, Young‑Chang Cho, moved to a new affiliation (College of Pharmacy, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea). Therefore, the published paper should also have included details of the new affiliation as a 'Present address'. The author and affiliation information should have been shown as follows: HIEN THI THU LE1*, YOUNG‑CHANG CHO1,2* and SAYEON CHO1. 1Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacological Cell Biology, College of Pharmacy, Chung‑Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea. *Contributed equally. 2Present address: College of Pharmacy, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea. The authors regret that this change was not made prior to the publication of their paper, and apologize for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in International Journal of Molecular Medicine 41: 1783‑1791, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2018.3377].