Correction to: Acta Pharmacologica Sinica https://doi.org/10.1038/s41401-021-00612-9, published online 19 February 2021

The authors apologize that in Fig. 5d, the western blotting bands of HCT116 cells treated with 2DG (5 mM) and different concentrations of lovastatin were the same as cells treated with lovastatin (10 μM) and different concentrations of 2DG, which was misplaced inadvertently. The correct figure is reproduced and presented. The conclusions are not affected by this correction. We sincerely apologize for our mistakes and any inconvenience this might have caused.

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d Representative immunoblots showing LC3 and Beclin-1 from HCT116 cells treated with either 2DG (5 mM) and different concentrations of lovastatin or lovastatin (10 μM) and different concentrations of 2DG for 48 h.