Insights into origins and function of the unexplored majority of the reductive dehalogenase gene family as a result of genome assembly and ortholog group …

O Molenda, LAP Jácome, X Cao, CL Nesbø… - … Science: Processes & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organohalide respiring bacteria (OHRB) express reductive dehalogenases for energy
conservation and growth. Some of these enzymes catalyze the reductive dehalogenation of …

Efficient biodegradation of tetrabromobisphenol A by the novel strain Enterobacter sp. T2 with good environmental adaptation: Kinetics, pathways and genomic …

X Peng, Q Zheng, L Liu, Y He, T Li, X Jia - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
T2, a gram-positive bacterium capable of rapidly degrading tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA),
and affiliated with the genus Enterobacter, was isolated for the first time from sludge that had …

Dehalogenimonas sp. Strain WBC-2 Genome and Identification of Its trans-Dichloroethene Reductive Dehalogenase, TdrA

O Molenda, AT Quaile, EA Edwards - Applied and environmental …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Dehalogenimonas population in a dechlorinating enrichment culture referred to as WBC-
2 was previously shown to be responsible for trans-dichloroethene (tDCE) hydrogenolysis to …

Mechanistic dichotomy in bacterial trichloroethene dechlorination revealed by carbon and chlorine isotope effects

C Lihl, LM Douglas, S Franke… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE) are significant groundwater
contaminants. Microbial reductive dehalogenation at contaminated sites can produce …

Microbial community response to a bioaugmentation test to degrade trichloroethylene in a fractured rock aquifer, Trenton, NJ

JC Underwood, DM Akob, MM Lorah… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bioaugmentation is a promising strategy for enhancing trichloroethylene (TCE) degradation
in fractured rock. However, slow or incomplete biodegradation can lead to stalling at …

Sustained Dechlorination of Vinyl Chloride to Ethene in Dehalococcoides-Enriched Cultures Grown without Addition of Exogenous Vitamins and at Low pH

LA Puentes Jácome, PH Wang… - Environmental …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Trichloroethene (TCE) bioremediation has been demonstrated at field sites using microbial
cultures harboring TCE-respiring Dehalococcoides whose growth is cobalamin (vitamin …

Heterologous Expression of Active Dehalobacter Respiratory Reductive Dehalogenases in Escherichia coli

KJ Picott, R Flick, EA Edwards - Applied and Environmental …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Reductive dehalogenases (RDases) are a family of redox enzymes that are required for
anaerobic organohalide respiration, a microbial process that is useful in bioremediation …

Dual C–Cl isotope analysis for characterizing the anaerobic transformation of α, β, γ, and δ-hexachlorocyclohexane in contaminated aquifers

Y Liu, S Kümmel, J Yao, I Nijenhuis, HH Richnow - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) are widespread and persistent environmental pollutants,
which cause heavy contamination in soil, sediment and groundwater. An anaerobic …

Application of a novel gene encoding bromophenol dehalogenase from Ochrobactrum sp. T in TBBPA degradation

Z Liang, G Li, B Mai, H Ma, T An - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Tetrabromobisphenol-A (TBBPA), a typical brominated flame retardant, leaked from
commercial products into the environments has attracted people's attention around the …

Impacts of low-temperature thermal treatment on microbial detoxification of tetrachloroethene under continuous flow conditions

TF Marcet, NL Cápiro, Y Yang, FE Löffler, KD Pennell - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Coupling in situ thermal treatment (ISTT) with microbial reductive dechlorination (MRD) has
the potential to enhance contaminant degradation and reduce cleanup costs compared to …