Correction to: Communications Biology https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07565-3, published online 22 February 2025

In the version of the article initially published, there was an error in the structure presented in Fig. 4 where a C atom was missing in the schematic representation of the nucleotides. Additionally,  in the Acknowledgements, Inna Rozman Grinberg was not thanked for help with activity assays. The figure and Acknowledgements have been updated in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.