Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi (original) (raw)

“…To date, our knowledge about the metabolic properties of members of this clade is derived from several closely related cultivated strains, that is, Dehalococcoides mccartyi strains (Lö ffler et al, 2012), Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens strains (Moe et al, 2009), Dehalogenimonas alkenigignens strains (Bowman et al, 2012) and 'Dehalobium chlorocoercia' strain DF-1 (May et al, 2008). These isolates are unified by their ability to grow via organohalide respiration, that is, they use halogenated organic compounds as terminal electron acceptors while using hydrogen as an electron donor in an anaerobic respiration (Tas et al, 2010).…”