Correction to: Communications Biology 10.1038/s42003-018-0214-4; Published online 05 December 2018
In the original published version of the article, the protein name for the carbohydrate deacetylase in Geobacillus stearothermophilus was missing from Table 1. The protein name, Axe2 (corresponding to PDB code 3W7V), should have appeared immediately following the species name. In addition, a space was inadvertently omitted between Xanthomonas campestris and ACDase in Table 1. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions.