Correction to: Nature Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-00624-8, published online 29 January 2021.

In the version of this Article originally published, in Fig. 1, compounds PUMB and PCPT, Supplementary Fig. 12, and Supplementary Schemes 1 and 4–6, the structures of ‘POEGMEA’ and ‘vancomycin’ were incorrect. In all of these, the brackets labelled ‘m’ appeared in the wrong positions for POEGMEA and the stereochemistry in the sugar ring of vancomycin was incorrect. These errors have now been corrected.

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Original and Corrected.

In addition, two new references, ref. 23 and ref. 24, have been added to the final sentence of the third paragraph to cite relevant research that was published by the corresponding authors before the publication of this Article; subsequent references have been renumbered.