MICROBIOLOGY Correction for “c-di-AMP hydrolysis by the phosphodiesterase AtaC promotes differentiation of multicellular bacteria,” by Andreas Latoscha, David Jan Drexler, Mahmoud M. Al-Bassam, Adrian M. Bandera, Volkhard Kaever, Kim C. Findlay, Gregor Witte, and Natalia Tschowri, which was first published March 18, 2020; 10.1073/pnas.1917080117 (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117, 7392–7400).
The authors note that the Streptococcus pneumoniae gene (sequence ID CVN04004.1) used in the study likely comes from Micrococcus luteus. The error was caused by a misannotation in the misassigned contig embl|FCSG01000028.1. The eight AtaC hits to Mycobacterium tuberculosis presented in the study were found in various contigs but not in complete genomic sequences of M. tuberculosis H37Rv. AtaC homologs are present in M. avium 104, M. smegmatis MC2 155, and other mycobacteria. The authors thank Michael Galperin, NIH/National Library of Medicine/National Center for Biotechnology Information, for bringing this matter to their attention. This misassignment does not change the conclusions of the article describing AtaC as the c-di-AMP degrading phosphodiesterase in Streptomyces and many other actinobacteria.