AUTHOR CORRECTION
Volume 83, no. 14, e00503-17, https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00503-17. The strain NVH-1376, which was presented as a ΔyndD ΔgerKA-C double mutant, was found to contain a spectinomycin resistance cassette inserted into the gerAA gene, making it a ger-null mutant.
Hence, there is no evidence indicating that the GerA germinant receptor cannot function alone in inducing germination in response to moderately high pressures, as was originally argued in our published paper. All statements in the Abstract, Results, and Discussion that GerA cannot induce germination in response to moderately high pressure when present as the single, intact germination receptor should be disregarded.
Page 1, Abstract, line 11: “GerK also triggers” should read “GerK and GerA also trigger.”
Page 1, Abstract, lines 12 and 13: The sentence beginning with “GerA stimulates…” should be deleted.
Page 2, line 30: “B. licheniformis spore germination” should read “efficient B. licheniformis germination.”
Page 3, Table 1, column 2, row 15: “ΔyndD ΔgerKA-C mutant” should “ΔgerAA ΔyndD ΔgerKA-C mutant.”
Page 5, legend to Fig. 3: “(C) NVH-1376 (ΔgerKA-C ΔyndD)” should read “(C) NVH-1376 (ΔgerAA ΔyndD ΔgerKA-C).”
Page 5: Lines 19–22 should read as follows. “…For spores of strain NVH-1370 (ΔgerAA ΔgerKA-C ΔyndD), which lack all functional GRs (Ger−), no mHP-induced germination was detected, as determined by the plate counts (Table 1 and Fig. 3D).”
Page 6, legend to Fig. 4, line 4: “NVH-1376 (ΔgerKA-C ΔyndD)” should read “NVH-1376 (ΔgerAA::spc ΔyndD ΔgerKA-C).”
Page 6, Fig. 4: “NVH-1376 (ΔgerKA-C ΔyndD)” should read “NVH-1376 (ΔgerAA ΔgerKA-C ΔyndD).” Figure 4 should appear as shown below.
Page 6, line 1: “(GerA+)” should read “(Ger−).”
Page 6, line 4: “(GerA+)” should read “(Ger−).”
Page 8, lines 31–34: The sentence beginning with “The importance…” should be deleted.
Page 11, Table 2, column 2, row 10: “B. licheniformis MW3 ΔgerKA-C ΔyndD” should read “B. licheniformis MW3 ΔgerAA::spc ΔyndD ΔgerKA-C.”
Supplemental material: In Table S1, column 1, “NVH-1376 (ΔgerKA-C ΔyndD)” should read “NVH-1376 (ΔgerAA ΔgerKA-C ΔyndD).” Revised supplemental material is posted at http://aem.asm.org/content/83/14/e00503-17/suppl/DCSupplemental.
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