Correction to: Nature Metabolism https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-019-0033-z, published online 18 February 2019.

In the version of this article initially published, in the Methods section, the kanamycin concentration of 50 mg ml−1 should have read 50 μg ml−1; the tunicamycin concentration of 50 µg µl−1 should have read 50 µg ml−1; the levamisole concentration of 0.1 μg ml−1 should have read 10 mM; and the sodium azide concentration of 1 μM in the ‘Bacterial feeding and chemotaxis assays’ section should have read 50 mM. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.