Erratum to: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

DOI 10.1007/s00253-013-4851-8

The first 25 nucleotides of the primer ku805R and the first 25 nucleotides of the primer ku803F in Table 1 of the original publication should be underlined by wave lines instead of straight lines.

Please see below for the corrected table:

Table 1 Primers used in this study