Dehalobacter restrictus explained

Dehalobacter restrictus is a species of bacteria in the phylum Bacillota. It is strictly anaerobic and reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene. It does not form spores; it is a small, gram-positive 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.

Further reading

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

External links

• • LSPN
• Type strain of Dehalobacter restrictus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Holliger. C.. Hahn. Dittmar. Harmsen. Hermie. Ludwig. Wolfgang. Schumacher. Wolfram. Tindall. Brian. Vazquez. Francisco. Weiss. Norbert. Zehnder. Alexander J. B.. Alexander Zehnder. 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. 1998. 313–321. 0302-8933. 10.1007/s002030050577. 9531632. 28240866. free.