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....