Erratum to: Chin J Cancer (2016) 35:32 DOI 10.1186/s40880-016-0094-2

After publication of the original article [1], the authors noticed an error in the body of text in the last paragraph of section ‘The structure and function of the STIM and ORAI protein families’. The sentence “The primary intracellular hysiologic functions of STIM and ORAI are straightforward” should read: “The primary intracellular physiological functions of STIM and ORAI are straightforward”.