Modeling reveals a metabolic basis of competition among Dehalobacter strains during tandem chloroform and dichloromethane metabolism [PDF]
MSystemsSC05-UT is an anaerobic, heterogenous microbial enrichment culture that reduces chloroform to dichloromethane through reductive dechlorination, which it further mineralizes to carbon dioxide.
Radhakrishnan Mahadevan +2 more
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Comparative proteogenomics reveals ecological and evolutionary insights into the organohalide-respiring Dehalobacter restrictus strain T [PDF]
Applied and Environmental Microbiology1,1,1-Trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCA) and chloroform (CF) are persistent groundwater contaminants because of their widespread industrial use as organic solvents and improper disposal in the past.
Xiuying Li, Huijuan Jin
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Bioelectrochemically-assisted degradation of chloroform by a co-culture of Dehalobacter and Dehalobacterium [PDF]
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 2022 Using bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) to provide electrochemically generated hydrogen is a promising technology to provide electron donors for reductive dechlorination by organohalide-respiring bacteria.
David Fernández-Verdejo +4 more
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A gap-filling algorithm for prediction of metabolic interactions in microbial communities. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2021 The study of microbial communities and their interactions has attracted the interest of the scientific community, because of their potential for applications in biotechnology, ecology and medicine.
Dafni Giannari +2 more
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Deciphering reductive dehalogenase specificity through targeted mutagenesis of chloroalkane reductases [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyReductive dehalogenases (RDases) are essential in the anaerobic degradation of various organohalide contaminants. This family of enzymes has broad sequence diversity, but high structural conservation. There have been few studies assessing how RDase amino
Katherine J. Picott +2 more
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From Energy Deprivation Stress to Catalytic Adaptation of Reductive Dehalogenase TmrA for 1,1‐DCA Dechlorination: An Experimental and in Silico Study [PDF]
Microbial BiotechnologyOrganohalide‐respiring bacteria capable of metabolizing multiple organohalogens represent valuable tools for bioremediation and offer intriguing evolutionary potential for adaptation to non‐native substrates.
Yi Ren +3 more
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Developing an E. coli heterologous expression system for characterizing a marine debrominase from Roseobacter sp. [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyReductive dehalogenases (RDases) are a family of enzymes that employ a cobamide cofactor and two iron-sulfur clusters to selectively cleave carbon-halogen bonds.
Xiaofang Li +7 more
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Bibliometrics and Visualization Analysis of Three Obligate Organohalide Respiring Bacteria Genera: A Systematic Review [PDF]
MicroorganismsOrganohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB) facilitate the reductive dehalogenation of toxic halogenated compounds in the environment, which supports their growth and proliferation. Research conducted on OHRB has achieved notable advancements.
Lisi Jiang +6 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 The genomes of two closely related Dehalobacter strains (strain CF and strain DCA) were assembled from the metagenome of an anaerobic enrichment culture that reductively dechlorinates chloroform (CF), 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCA) and 1,1 ...
Po Hsiang Wang +2 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 De novo corrinoid biosynthesis represents one of the most complicated metabolic pathways in nature. Organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB) have developed different strategies to deal with their need of corrinoid, as it is an essential cofactor of ...
Yue Lu, Sjef Boeren, Hauke Smidt
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