Correction to: _Nature Structural & Molecular Biology_ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-019-0227-9, published online 20 May 2019. In the version of this article initially

published, the genus and species were named incorrectly (_H. sapiens_) in the third sentence of the fifth paragraph of the third subsection of Results (‘Pan2 contacts the ribophosphate

backbone of poly(A) RNA’) and in the first sentence of the legend to Supplementary Fig. 3. The correct genus and species are _S. pombe_. Also, the designation CAF1 is incorrect in the fourth

sentence of the second paragraph and throughout the fifth paragraph of that subsection of Results, as well as in Supplementary Figs. 3 and 4 and their titles and legends. The correct

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