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| Genus: | Dehalobacter Holliger et al. 1998
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| Dehalobacter restrictus Holliger et al. 1998
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Dehalobacter is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (Bacteria).1
Etymology
The generic name Dehalobacter derives from Latin de, from; halogenum from Swedish, coined by Swedish chemist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848) from Greek hals, halos "salt" + gen "to produce", so called because a salt is formed in reactions involving these elements; a rod bacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, a rod; giving Dehalobacter, a halogen-removing, rod-shaped bacterium.12
Species
The genus contains a two species,2 namely D. restrictus (Holliger et al. 1998), type species of the genus. The specific name is from Latin restrictus, limited, restricted, confined, referring to the limited substrate range used.3 Recently, Dehalobacter sp. UNSWDHB, which dechlorinate chloroform to dichloromethane, and its reductive dehalogenase were identified.45
References
References
- Dehalobacter in LPSN; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (29 October 2025). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 53: D1–D12. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
- Schoch CL; et al. "Dehalobacter". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
- Holliger, C.; Hahn, D.; Harmsen, H.; Ludwig, W.; Schumacher, W.; Tindall, B.; Vazquez, F.; Weiss, N.; Zehnder, A. J. B. (1998). "Dehalobacter restrictus gen. Nov. And sp. Nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration". Archives of Microbiology. 169 (4): 313–321. doi:10.1007/s002030050577. PMID 9531632. S2CID 28240866.
- Jugder, Bat-Erdene; Ertan, Haluk; Wong, Yie Kuan; Braidy, Nady; Manefield, Michael; Marquis, Christopher P.; Lee, Matthew (2016-08-10). "Genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses ofDehalobacterUNSWDHB in response to chloroform". Environmental Microbiology Reports. 8 (5): 814–824. doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12444. hdl:1959.4/unsworks_46701. ISSN 1758-2229. PMID 27452500.
- Jugder, Bat-Erdene; Bohl, Susanne; Lebhar, Helene; Healey, Robert D.; Manefield, Mike; Marquis, Christopher P.; Lee, Matthew (2017-06-20). "A bacterial chloroform reductive dehalogenase: purification and biochemical characterization". Microbial Biotechnology. 10 (6): 1640–1648. doi:10.1111/1751-7915.12745. ISSN 1751-7915. PMC 5658581. PMID 28631300.