Subsequently to the publication of this paper, an interested reader drew to the authors' attention that, in Fig. 1A on p. 524, the images selected to represent the Control experiments for the SU‑DHL‑8 and OCI‑Ly01 cell lines bore some striking similarities. After having examined their original data, the authors realized that they uploaded the wrong images during the process of compiling this figure. The corrected version of Fig. 1, showing the correct data for Fig. 1A, is shown on the next page. Note that the replacement of the erroneous data does not affect either the results or the conclusions reported in this paper, and all the authors agree to this Corrigendum. The authors are grateful to the Editor of Molecular Medicine Reports for granting them this opportunity to publish a Corrigendum, and apologize to the readership for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in Molecular Medicine Reports 17: 522‑530, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2017.7892].