Open AccessAnaerobic dechlorination of tetrachloromethane and 1,2‐dichloroethane to degradable products by pure cultures of Desulfobacterium sp. and Methanobacterium sp.
Author(s) -
Egli Christine,
Scholtz Rudolf,
Cook Alasdair M.,
Leisinger Thomas
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1987.tb02154.x
Subject(s) - methanobacterium , dichloromethane , 1,2 dichloroethane , chemistry , dichloroethane , organic chemistry , chloroform , nuclear chemistry , biochemistry , catalysis , solvent , archaea , gene
Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum grew autotrophically and Desulfobacterium autotrophicum grew heterotrophically in the presence of one of several highly chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons in the low μM range. M. thermoautotrophicum transformed a portion of 1,2‐dichloroethane, and ethene was identified as the product. D. autotrophicum also displayed substrate specificity; it reduced tetrachloromethane quantitatively to trichloromethane and dichloromethane, and converted 1,1,1‐trichloroethane to 1,1‐dichloroethane.