The erratum for the article "Pore-forming activity and structural autoinhibition of the gasdermin family" by Jingjin Ding, Kun Wang, Wang Liu, Yang She, Qi Sun, Jianjin Shi, Hanzi Sun, Da-Cheng Wang, and Feng Shao, published in *Nature* 535, 111–116 (2016), corrects a typesetter error where the "received date" was incorrectly shown as "6 March 2015" instead of "6 March 2016." This correction has been made in the online versions of the paper.The erratum for the article "Pore-forming activity and structural autoinhibition of the gasdermin family" by Jingjin Ding, Kun Wang, Wang Liu, Yang She, Qi Sun, Jianjin Shi, Hanzi Sun, Da-Cheng Wang, and Feng Shao, published in *Nature* 535, 111–116 (2016), corrects a typesetter error where the "received date" was incorrectly shown as "6 March 2015" instead of "6 March 2016." This correction has been made in the online versions of the paper.