Correction: Respiratory Research (2019) 20:84 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-019-1048-4

Following the publication of this article [1], a reader drew to our attention an anomaly associated with the data shown in some figures. After careful scrutiny, we found that we somehow misused some images (Fig. 4A, E, F; Fig. 5A–C and Fig. 7D) in this article when constructing the final figure. This does not affect the interpretation of the experiments and the conclusions of the study. A corrected version of figure is presented here. We thank the reader of our article who drew this matter to our attention.

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