Although strictly anaerobic conditions prevail in several environmental compartments, up to
now, biodegradation studies with emerging organic contaminants (EOCs), such as …

If the atmosphere of the early Earth was hydrogen-rich, 1 it is reasonable to think that
hydrogenases, the enzymes enabling cells to use molecular hydrogen, were probably …

" This thoroughly revised educational resource presents the biological principles that
underlie modern microbiological treatment technologies. Written by two of the field's …

Tetrachloroethene is a prominent groundwater pollutant that can be reductively
dechlorinated by mixed anaerobic microbial populations to the nontoxic product ethene …

Organohalide respiration is an anaerobic bacterial respiratory process that uses
halogenated hydrocarbons as terminal electron acceptors during electron transport-based …

Organohalide-respiring microorganisms can use a variety of persistent pollutants, including
trichloroethene (TCE), as terminal electron acceptors. The final two-electron transfer step in …

A laboratory microcosm study and a pilot scale field test were conducted to evaluate
biostimulation and bioaugmentation to dechlorinate tetrachloroethene (PCE) to ethene at …

Within the last few decades, several anaerobic bacteria have been isolated which are able
to reductively dechlorinate chlorinated aliphatic and aromatic compounds at catabolic rates …

▪ Abstract The natural production and anthropogenic release of halogenated hydrocarbons
into the environment has been the likely driving force for the evolution of an unexpectedly …

Five strains were isolated which form a physiologically and phylogenetically coherent group
of chlororespiring microorganisms and represent the first taxon in the Myxobacteria capable …