Desulfomonile, anaerobic dechlorination

A comparable reductive dechlorination is used by a pentachlo-rophenol-degrading Flavobacterium sp. and the enzyme has been purified the successive dechlorinations to form 2-chloro-l,4-dihy-droxybenzene are probably mediated by a glutathione S-trans-ferase system (Xun et al. 1992c). It should be noted that the evidence so far shows that the enzyme involved in this reaction is distinct from that involved in the anaerobic dechlorination of 3-chloroben-zoate by Desulfomonile tiedjei DCB-l(Ni et al. 1995) that is discussed further in Section 6.6. 

Ahring, B.K., N. Christiansen, I. Mathrani, H.V. Henriksen, A.J.L. Macario, and E.C. de Macario. 1992. Introduction of a de novo bioremediation ability, aryl reductive dechlorination, into anaerobic granular sludge by inoculation of sludge with Desulfomonile tiedjei. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58 3677-3682. 

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