Correction to: Physiological and stoichiometric characterization of ethanol-based chain elongation in the absence of short-chain carboxylic acids (Scientific Reports, (2023), 13, 1, (17370), 10.1038/s41598-023-43682-x)

Correction to: Scientific Reportshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43682-x, published online 13 October 2023 The original version of this Article contained errors in the Discussion section, where reference 34 was incorrectly cited as reference 25. Consequently, “Spirito et al.²⁵ also observed a decreased conversion rate when...

Physiological and stoichiometric characterization of ethanol-based chain elongation in the absence of short-chain carboxylic acids

Hexanoate is a valuable chemical that can be produced by microorganisms that convert short-chain- to medium-chain carboxylic acids through a process called chain elongation. These microorganisms usually produce mixtures of butyrate and hexanoate from ethanol and acetate, but direct conversion of ethanol to hexanoate is theoretically possible....

Natranaerofaba carboxydovora gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely haloalkaliphilic CO-utilizing acetogen from a hypersaline soda lake representing a novel deep phylogenetic lineage in the class ‘Natranaerobiia’

An anaerobic enrichment with CO from sediments of hypersaline soda lakes resulted in a methane-forming binary culture, whereby CO was utilized by a bacterium and not the methanogenic partner. The bacterial isolate ANCO1 forms a deep-branching phylogenetic lineage at the level of a new family within the class ‘Natranaerobiia’. It is an extreme...