Challenges and opportunities for the biodegradation of chlorophenols: Aerobic, anaerobic and bioelectrochemical processes

K Yang, Y Zhao, M Ji, Z Li, S Zhai, X Zhou, Q Wang… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Chlorophenols (CPs) are highly toxic and refractory contaminants which widely exist in
various environments and cause serious harm to human and environment health and safety …

Biochemistry, physiology and biotechnology of sulfate‐reducing bacteria

LL Barton, GD Fauque - Advances in applied microbiology, 2009 - Elsevier
Chemolithotrophic bacteria that use sulfate as terminal electron acceptor (sulfate-reducing
bacteria) constitute a unique physiological group of microorganisms that couple anaerobic …

Isolation of a bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetrachloroethene to ethene

X Maymo-Gatell, Y Chien, JM Gossett, SH Zinder - Science, 1997 - science.org
Tetrachloroethene is a prominent groundwater pollutant that can be reductively
dechlorinated by mixed anaerobic microbial populations to the nontoxic product ethene …

Reductive dechlorination in the energy metabolism of anaerobic bacteria

C Holliger, G Wohlfarth, G Diekert - FEMS Microbiology …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[图书][B] Enzymes in the environment: activity, ecology, and applications

RG Burns, RP Dick - 2002 - taylorfrancis.com
Exploring the role of enzymes in biogeochemical processes, this reference explores the
function, molecular biology, and biochemistry of microorganisms and their intra-and extra …

Dehalobacter restrictus gen. nov. and sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra-and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration

C Holliger, D Hahn, H Harmsen, W Ludwig… - Archives of …, 1998 - Springer
The highly enriched anaerobic bacterium that couples the reductive dechlorination of
tetrachloroethene to growth, previously referred to as PER-K23, was obtained in pure culture …

Biodegradation of aromatic compounds: current status and opportunities for biomolecular approaches

B Cao, K Nagarajan, KC Loh - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2009 - Springer
Biodegradation can achieve complete and cost-effective elimination of aromatic pollutants
through harnessing diverse microbial metabolic processes. Aromatics biodegradation plays …

Bacterial dehalogenation

S Fetzner - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 1998 - Springer
Halogenated organic compounds are produced industrially in large quantities and represent
an important class of environmental pollutants. However, an abundance of haloorganic …

Complete Detoxification of Vinyl Chloride by an Anaerobic Enrichment Culture and Identification of the Reductively Dechlorinating Population as a Dehalococcoides …

J He, KM Ritalahti, MR Aiello… - Applied and …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A major obstacle in the implementation of the reductive dechlorination process
at chloroethene-contaminated sites is the accumulation of the intermediate vinyl chloride …

Comparison of butyric acid, ethanol, lactic acid, and propionic acid as hydrogen donors for the reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene

DE Fennell, JM Gossett, SH Zinder - Environmental Science & …, 1997 - ACS Publications
Previous studies indicated that dechlorinators can utilize H2 at lower concentrations than
can methanogens. This suggests a strategy for selective enhancement of dechlorination …