Effects of chloromethanes on growth of and deletion of the pce gene cluster in dehalorespiring Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain Y51.
Appl Environ Microbiol
; 72(9): 5998-6003, 2006 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-16957221
ABSTRACT
The dehalorespiring Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain Y51 efficiently dechlorinates tetrachloroethene (PCE) to cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) via trichloroethene by PceA reductive dehalogenase encoded by the pceA gene. In a previous study, we found that the significant growth inhibition of strain Y51 occurred in the presence of commercial cis-DCE. In this study, it turned out that the growth inhibition was caused by chloroform (CF) contamination of cis-DCE. Interestingly, CF did not affect the growth of PCE-nondechlorinating SD (small deletion) and LD (large deletion) variants, where the former fails to transcribe the pceABC genes caused by a deletion of the promoter and the latter lost the entire pceABCT gene cluster. Therefore, PCE-nondechlorinating variants, mostly LD variant, became predominant, and dechlorination activity was significantly reduced in the presence of CF. Moreover, such a growth inhibitory effect was also observed in the presence of carbon tetrachloride at 1 microM, but not carbon dichloride even at 1 mM.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Desulfitobacterium
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Methyl Chloride
Language:
En
Journal:
Appl Environ Microbiol
Year:
2006
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Japón