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Microbial transformation of chlorinated benzenes under anaerobic conditions
Lorenz Adrian1, Helmut Görisch
1Fachgebiet Technische Biochemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Lorenz.Adrian@tu-berlin.de
Research in Microbiology
|May 11, 2002
Abstract:
Chlorobenzenes are reductively dechlorinated by anaerobic bacterial cultures obtained from sediments and sludge. Recently a strain was isolated that couples reductive dechlorination of chlorobenzenes with energy conservation. The results reviewed in this article suggest that additional anaerobic bacteria, thriving by dehalogenation of chlorobenzenes or chlorobiphenylic compounds, can be isolated.