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Correction: Structural determinants of macrocyclization in substrate-controlled lanthipeptide biosynthetic pathways.

Silvia C Bobeica¹, Lingyang Zhu², Jeella Z Acedo¹

¹Department of Chemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 600 South Mathews Avenue Urbana Illinois 61801 USA vddonk@illinois.edu +1-217-244-8533 +1-217-244-5360.

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The article DOI 10.1039/D0SC01651A has been corrected.
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