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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 and characterized. The bacterium, which does not form spores, is a small, gram-negative rod with one lateral flagellum. It utilized only H2 as an electron donor and tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene as electron acceptors in an anaerobic respiration process; it could not grow fermentatively. Acetate served as a carbon source in a defined medium containing iron as the sole trace element, the two vitamins thiamine and cyanocobalamin, and the three amino acids arginine, histidine, and threonine. The cells contained menaquinones and b-type cytochromes. The G+C content of the DNA was 45.3 ± 0.3 mol%. The cell wall consisted of type-A3γ peptidoglycan with ll-diaminopimelic acid and one glycine as an interpeptide bridge. The cells are surrounded by an S-layer; an outer membrane was absent. Comparative sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA sequence showed that PER-K23 is related to gram-positive bacteria with a low G+C content of the DNA. Based on the cytological, physiological, and phylogenetic characterization, it is proposed to affiliate the isolate to a new genus, Dehalobacter, with PER-K23 as the type strain of the new species Dehalobacter restrictus.
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Received: 14 July 1997 / Accepted: 27 November 1997
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Holliger, C., Hahn, D., Harmsen, H. et al. Dehalobacter restrictus gen. nov. and sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration. Arch Microbiol 169, 313–321 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050577
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