Correction for Iwasaki et al., “Homolactic Acid Fermentation by the Genetically Engineered Thermophilic Homoacetogen Moorella thermoacetica ATCC 39073”

AUTHOR CORRECTION

Volume 83, no. 8, e00247-17, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00247-17. Page 2, line 40: “M. thermoacetica (18)” should read “M. thermoacetica (18, 36).”

Page 7, lines 34 and 35: “a genome analysis of M. thermoacetica ATCC 39073 (18)” should read “a genome analysis of M. thermoacetica ATCC 39073 (18) and an enzymatic analysis of its PduL proteins (36).”

Page 8, line 3: “in this study” should read “also in this study as described previously (36).”

Page 13: The following reference was inadvertently omitted.

36. Breitkopf R, Uhlig R, Drenckhan T, Fischer R-J. 2016. Two propanediol utilization-like proteins of Moorella thermoacetica with phosphotransacetylase activity. Extremophiles 20:653–661. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-016-0854-6.

At the time of publication, we were unaware that Breitkopf and coauthors (reference above) had recently reported that recombinant Moth_0864 and Moth_1181 proteins from Moorella thermoacetica possessed phosphotransacetylase activity. Based on their findings, Breitkopf and coauthors speculated that these proteins might be involved in the formation of acetate in M. thermoacetica. We apologize for overlooking this article, which contains information of central importance to our paper in which we describe work focused on the activity of these proteins in M. thermoacetica.