Inbar Cahana

Correction to: Nature Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01820-9, published online 22 October 2024. In the version of this article initially published, the last name of Neta Shlezinger was misspelled (Schlezinger) and has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. About this article Nachmias, N., Dotan, N., Rocha, M.C. et al. Author Correction: Systematic discovery of antibacterial and antifungal bacterial toxins. Nat Microbiol (2025).

Abstract Microorganisms use toxins to kill competing microorganisms or eukaryotic cells. Polymorphic toxins are proteins that encode carboxy-terminal toxin domains. Here we developed a computational approach to identify previously undiscovered, conserved toxin domains of polymorphic toxins within 105,438 microbial genomes. We validated nine short toxins, showing that they cause cell death upon heterologous expression in either Escherichia coli or Saccharomyces cerevisiae.