Correction to: Nature Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02142-0, published online 3 October 2025.

In the version of this article initially published, Kimberly Corneil (Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) was not included in the author list. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.