Organohalide respiration is an anaerobic bacterial respiratory process that uses
halogenated hydrocarbons as terminal electron acceptors during electron transport-based …

▪ Abstract The natural production and anthropogenic release of halogenated hydrocarbons
into the environment has been the likely driving force for the evolution of an unexpectedly …

The 16S rRNA gene provides insufficient information to infer the range of chloroorganic
electron acceptors used by different Dehalococcoides organisms. To overcome this …

Dehalococcoides ethenogenes is the only bacterium known to reductively dechlorinate the
groundwater pollutants, tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene, to ethene. Its …

Fastidious anaerobic bacteria play critical roles in environmental bioremediation of
halogenated compounds. However, their characterization and application have been largely …

Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195 dechlorinates tetrachloroethene to vinyl chloride
and ethene, and its genome has been found to contain up to 17 putative dehalogenase …

Reductive dehalogenation of vinyl chloride (VC) to ethene is the key step in complete
anaerobic degradation of chlorinated ethenes. VC-reductive dehalogenase was partially …

ABSTRACT A major obstacle in the implementation of the reductive dechlorination process
at chloroethene-contaminated sites is the accumulation of the intermediate vinyl chloride …

A strictly anaerobic bacterium was isolated from tetrachloroethene (PCE)‐to‐ethene
dechlorinating microcosms established with river sediment without prior exposure to …

Organohalides are recalcitrant pollutants that have been responsible for substantial
contamination of soils and groundwater. Organohalide-respiring bacteria (ORB) provide a …