Dehalococcoides
Sign in to saveDehalococcoides is a genus of bacteria within class Dehalococcoidia that obtain energy via the oxidation of hydrogen and subsequent reductive dehalogenation of halogenated organic compounds in a mode of anaerobic respiration called organohalide respiration. They are well known for their great potential to remediate halogenated ethenes and aromatics. They are the only bacteria known to transform highly chlorinated dioxins, PCBs. In addition, they are the only known bacteria to transform tetrachloroethene (perchloroethene, PCE) to ethene.
Research
778 papers- Dehalococcoides-Containing Enrichment Cultures Transform Two Chlorinated Organophosphate Esters.Environmental science & technology · 2022
- Organohalide respiration in Dehalococcoides strains represents a novel mode of proton motive force generation.Advances in microbial physiology · 2025
- Real-time PCR quantification of Dehalococcoides populations: methods and applications.Journal of microbiological methods · 2008
- Mechanistic insight into the Dehalococcoides-mediated reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls.Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2023
- Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain NIT01 grows more stably in vessels made of pure titanium rather than the stainless alloy SUS304.Environmental microbiology reports · 2023
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Dehalococcoides is a genus of bacteria within class Dehalococcoidia that obtain energy via the oxidation of hydrogen and subsequent reductive dehalogenation of halogenated organic compounds in a mode of anaerobic respiration called organohalide respiration. They are well known for their great potential to remediate halogenated ethenes and aromatics. They are the only bacteria known to transform highly chlorinated dioxins, PCBs. In addition, they are the only known bacteria to transform tetrachloroethene (perchloroethene, PCE) to ethene.
==Microbiology== The first member of the genus Dehalococcoides was described in 1997 as Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195 (nom. inval.). Additional Dehalococcoides members were later described as strains CBDB1, BAV1, FL2, VS, and GT. In 2012 all yet-isolated Dehalococcoides strains were summarized under the new taxonomic name D. mccartyi, with strain 195 as the type strain.