Dehalobacter restrictus

Dehalobacter restrictus
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: "Firmicutes"
Class: Clostridia
Order: Clostridiales
Family: Peptococcaceae
Genus: Dehalobacter
Species: Dehalobacter restrictus
Holliger et al. 1998

Dehalobacter restrictus is a species of bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. It is strictly anaerobic and reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene. It does not form spores; it is a small, gram-negative rod with one lateral flagellum. PER-K23 is its type strain.[1]

Its name is Latin for “restricted”, referring to the limited substrate range utilized.

References

  1. ↑ Holliger, C.; Hahn, Dittmar; Harmsen, Hermie; Ludwig, Wolfgang; Schumacher, Wolfram; Tindall, Brian; Vazquez, Francisco; Weiss, Norbert; Zehnder, Alexander J. B. (1998). "Dehalobacter restrictus gen. nov. and sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration". Archives of Microbiology. 169 (4): 313–321. doi:10.1007/s002030050577. ISSN 0302-8933. PMID 9531632.

Further reading

  • Maillard, J.; Schumacher, W.; Vazquez, F.; Regeard, C.; Hagen, W. R.; Holliger, C. (2003). "Characterization of the Corrinoid Iron-Sulfur Protein Tetrachloroethene Reductive Dehalogenase of Dehalobacter restrictus". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69 (8): 4628–4638. doi:10.1128/AEM.69.8.4628-4638.2003. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 169082. PMID 12902251.
  • Rupakula, Aamani; Kruse, Thomas; Boeren, Sjef; Holliger, Christof; Smidt, Hauke; Maillard, Julien (2013). "The restricted metabolism of the obligate organohalide respiring bacterium Dehalobacter restrictus: lessons from tiered functional genomics". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 368 (1616): 20120325. doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0325. PMC 3638465. PMID 23479754.


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