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2-Bromoethanesulfonate affects bacteria in a trichloroethene-dechlorinating culture
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. pei@ce.udel.edu
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|April 25, 2001
Abstract:
Long-term exposure to 2-bromoethanesulfonate (BES), an agent known to inhibit methanogenesis, altered the bacterial community structure of an anaerobic enrichment culture that reductively dechlorinated trichloroethene (TCE). BES did not hinder the dechlorination of TCE or other chlorinated ethenes as previously reported, although different intermediates and end products were observed.