Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57530-1, published online 7 March 2025

The original version of this article omitted two references to previous work: “Higashi, D. L. et al. Employing cloning-independent mutagenesis of Parvimonas micra for the study of cell wall biogenesis. Methods Mol. Biol. 2727, 57–67 (2024)” and “Higashi, D. L. et al. Development of the first tractable genetic system for Parvimonas micra, a ubiquitous pathobiont in human dysbiotic disease. Microbiol. Spectr. 10, e0046522 (2022)”.

These have been added as refs. 55 and 56 in the “Construction of P. micra ΔtmpC” section in the sentence ‘The gene knockout of tmpC is based on the natural competence of P. micra. Targeted mutagenesis against ATCC33270 was designed using cloning-independent methodologies55,56’. This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the article.